{"id":636560,"date":"2026-05-11T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/636560\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:42:10","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\/636560\/","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":636561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,41034,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-636560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-u-s-mexico-border","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}