46 dead found in a lorry in the USA – NRK Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
In addition to the many dead, another 16 people have been transported to hospital. We are talking about twelve adults and four children. There are no children among the 46 dead.
These patients should have varying health conditions.
They were exhausted and very hot. There was no water in the hold, the fire brigade informs.
It was the local TV station KSAT who first reported the tragedy.
Three people arrested
The train train with the many dead is the largest incident of its kind that San Antonio has ever experienced. It’s the city’s police chief William McManus to the press.
He states that three people have been arrested and that the case will be investigated at a national level.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard states that two of the people transported to the hospital have been identified and are from Guatemala. It reports Reuters.
There have been several cases, in a number of countries, where human traffickers transport refugees and migrants in cargo holds where there is not enough air, and where people are thus suffocated.
The train is found in a remote area, near a railroad line southwest of San Antonio.