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Seventh Body Found, Links to Laredo Boxcar Six Deaths

5/12/2026

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Sheriff Salazar Finds Seventh

Sheriff Javier Salazar said an alert led investigators to a seventh body in San Antonio, linking it to Laredo deaths.
Six people were found dead inside a Union Pacific boxcar at a Laredo, Texas rail yard on May 10 2026.
County officials said the victims were five men and a woman from Mexico and Honduras.
The victims ranged in age from 14 to 56.

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Union Pacific Scans

Union Pacific says its inspection portals scan and photograph containers to detect hidden migrants and contraband.
Six migrants were found dead in a Union Pacific container at Laredo, Texas, with seventh body discovered near San Antonio.
Federal agents and Texas Rangers are probing the deaths as a possible human-smuggling case.
Union Pacific noted cooperation with authorities and cited scanning portals to block migrants and drugs.

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Historical Context

The 1995 discovery of twelve dead migrants in a Tucson freight container prompted Union Pacific to install scanning portals, yet recent finds—a seventh body in San Antonio and six migrants in a Laredo boxcar—show those measures remain insufficient. With 239,416 border arrests recorded in May 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Arizona Department of Public Safety are tightening rail inspections to curb lethal smuggling.

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Sheriff Salazar Finds Seventh

Sheriff Javier Salazar said an alert led investigators to a seventh body in San Antonio, linking it to Laredo deaths.
Six people were found dead inside a Union Pacific boxcar at a Laredo, Texas rail yard on May 10 2026.
County officials said the victims were five men and a woman from Mexico and Honduras.
The victims ranged in age from 14 to 56.

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