{"id":287595,"date":"2026-05-11T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287595\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:33:07","slug":"6-bodies-found-in-boxcar-in-laredo-texas-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287595\/","title":{"rendered":"6 bodies found in boxcar in Laredo, Texas: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Six bodies were found on Sunday in a train boxcar in Laredo, Texas, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Union Pacific worker discovered them in a train yard at a remote location near the Mexican border, and police and firefighters later confirmed they had died, said Laredo Police Investigator Joe Baeza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not determined how they died, Baeza said. The investigation is ongoing, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were no survivors, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/health\/states-monitoring-hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:5 states monitoring for hantavirus after deadly cruise ship outbreak;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;5 states monitoring for hantavirus after deadly cruise ship outbreak&quot;}\"> 5 states monitoring for hantavirus after deadly cruise ship outbreak <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police did not say where the individuals were from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Past instances of multiple deaths in trains and tractor trailers not far from the U.S.-Mexico border have involved migrants, including a 2022 incident in which 53 were found dead in an abandoned truck with malfunctioning air conditioning on the outskirts of San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NewsNation.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NewsNation.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NewsNation. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six bodies were found on Sunday in a train boxcar in Laredo, Texas, according to police. A Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7686,105390,105433,27,29,28,105434],"class_list":["post-287595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-laredo","tag-police-investigator","tag-remote-location","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-train-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}