Houston June 28 As of the evening of the 28th Central Time in the United States, the death toll of immigrants found in a large truck in San Antonio, Texas, rose to 51. The truck driver has been arrested and two others have been charged.
The latest news shows that 39 of the deceased were men and 12 were women. More than 10 people survived, including 4 minors.
The Mexican Immigration Service (INM) stated that the container truck did not transit from Mexico into the United States. According to the existing monitoring equipment at the US-Mexico border and land ports, it is impossible for such a container truck carrying a large number of immigrants to escape monitoring and cross the border into the United States. The Mexican Immigration Service pointed out that the large number of immigrants who died in the container truck this time most likely crossed the border from Mexico to the United States in small groups of several people, and then gathered in the United States and moved in the United States in the container truck. This car When the 18-wheel truck was discovered on the evening of the 27th, there were nearly 100 people packed in the truck. There was no water in the cabin and the air conditioning was not working. At least 16 people, including four minors, were sent to local hospitals due to heatstroke and dehydration. It is one of the deadliest immigrant deaths in the United States in recent years.
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