Texas police said they’re investigating the death of six people found in a boxcar by a Union Pacific employee at a rail yard on Sunday.
Police said they responded to a call of “multiple casualties” at about 3 p.m. A Webb County medical examiner said the dead included one woman and five men.
One of the other dead persons appears to be a teenager. Officials said they believe they are all from Mexico and Honduras.
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The examiner identified the female victim as a Mexican national and one of the men as a Honduran national.
The official noted that temperatures had reached up to 105 degrees when the bodies were found.
“Following initial examinations, it has been determined that the female victim succumbed to hyperthermia,” reads the statement from the medical
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