11 indicted in smuggling deaths of 7 migrants in rail cargo container amid sweltering Texas heat
The migrants were put in the shipping container in Del Rio, Texas, two days after the train departed from Long Beach, California.
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Friday, July 24, 2026 9:15PM
Boxcar where 6 people found dead in Texas traveled from Long Beach
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Eleven people were charged Friday with causing the deaths of seven migrants by trapping them inside a train container in sweltering Texas heat after they were smuggled into the United States.
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Among the six people found dead inside the shipping container in a rail yard in the Texas border city of Laredo was a 14-year-old boy. Another person had been left for dead near the tracks in San Antonio, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, Justin R. Simmons.
"In that kind of heat, it's May in Texas, ultimately it's very hard to survive in an un-air conditioned, sealed container with ... the temperature being what it was on that day," Simmons said.
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