{"id":287759,"date":"2026-05-11T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:19:10","slug":"6-bodies-found-in-union-pacific-boxcar-in-laredo-texas-near-mexico-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287759\/","title":{"rendered":"6 bodies found in Union Pacific boxcar in Laredo, Texas, near Mexico, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people were found dead Sunday in a Union Pacific Railroad boxcar in Laredo, Texas, a city on the Mexican border, police there said.<\/p>\n<p>A railroad employee found the bodies, police said, adding that, &#8220;This is an on going fluid investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Union Pacific said in a statement that it was &#8220;saddened by this incident and is working closely with law enforcement to investigate.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The people weren&#8217;t publicly identified and authorities didn&#8217;t immediately give any more information about the probe.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures reached 97 degrees in Laredo on Sunday afternoon, which means it probably felt hotter than 100 degrees in the boxcar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/article\/news\/local\/union-pacific-boxcar-six-dead-laredo-texas\/273-97a9c1ec-b0c8-4932-9566-d9d49fc068d1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to CBS San Antonio affiliate KENS-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Laredo is some 157 miles southwest of San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were found dead Sunday in a Union Pacific Railroad boxcar in Laredo, Texas, a city on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,10226],"class_list":["post-287759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-u-s-mexico-border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287759","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=287759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}