Heat Stroke Is Suspected Among 6 Found Dead in a Shipping Container at a Rail Yard Near Texas Border

Heat Stroke Is Suspected Among 6 Found Dead in a Shipping Container at a Rail Yard Near Texas Border.
Heat Stroke Is Suspected Among 6 Found Dead in a Shipping Container at a Rail Yard Near Texas Border
Border Patrol agents oversee the Rio Grande after six bodies were found on Sunday in a train boxcar, in Laredo, Texas, on May 11, 2026. Gabriel V. Cardenas/Reuters
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LAREDO, Texas—A South Texas medical examiner believes heat stroke may have led to the death of six people thought to be immigrants who were found Sunday afternoon inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the Mexico border in Laredo, Texas.

The people were found Sunday as workers were inspecting one of the containers, said Jose Baeza, a spokesperson for the Laredo Police Department.