{"id":287785,"date":"2026-05-11T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287785\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:48:09","slug":"6-bodies-found-in-union-pacific-boxcar-in-laredo-texas-near-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287785\/","title":{"rendered":"6 bodies found in Union Pacific boxcar in Laredo, Texas, near Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A railroad employee found the bodies, police said, adding that, &#8220;This is an on going fluid investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Union Pacific said in a statement that it was &#8220;saddened by this incident and is working closely with law enforcement to investigate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The people weren&#8217;t publicly identified and authorities didn&#8217;t immediately give any more information about the probe.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:according to CBS San Antonio affiliate KENS-TV;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;according to CBS San Antonio affiliate KENS-TV&quot;}\" class=\"link \">according to CBS San Antonio affiliate KENS-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Laredo is some 157 miles southwest of San Antonio.<\/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":287786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7686,27,29,28,65319],"class_list":["post-287785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-laredo","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-union-pacific-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287785","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=287785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}