Six dead bodies found inside train boxcar at Texas rail yard near US-Mexico border, probe underway

May 12, 2026

Texas (USA), May 11, 2026 (ANI): Six bodies were found on Sunday, May 10, inside a train boxcar in a rail yard in Laredo, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, after a Union Pacific worker discovered them, according to police. Authorities confirmed the deaths, but the cause has not yet been determined and the investigation is ongoing, with no survivors reported and no information released about the identities or origins of the individuals. Officials noted that similar past incidents involving multiple deaths in trains or vehicles near the border have been linked to migrants, including a 2022 case in which 53 people were found dead in a truck near San Antonio.