{"id":79288,"date":"2022-06-28T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=79288"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:49:47","slug":"46-migrants-found-dead-in-tractor-trailer-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=79288","title":{"rendered":"46 migrants found dead in tractor-trailer in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday in and around a tractor-trailer that was abandoned on the side of a road in San Antonio, in central Texas, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years — and came five years after a similar deadly incident in the same city, a few hours from the Mexican border.<\/p>\n

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“At this time we have processed approximately 46 bodies that have been triaged and tagged and declared deceased,” San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood told reporters.<\/p>\n

He said that 16 people had been transported to hospital alive and conscious — 12 adults and four pediatric patients.<\/p>\n

“The patients that we saw were hot to the touch, they were suffering from heat stroke, heat exhaustion, no signs of water in the vehicle, it was a refrigerated tractor-trailer but there was no visible working AC unit on that rig,” Hood said.<\/p>\n

Officials reported three people were in custody over the incident.<\/p>\n

San Antonio, which lies some 250 kilometers (150 miles) from the border, is a major transit route for people smugglers.<\/p>\n

The vehicle was found on a road near Highway I-35, a major US artery that stretches all the way to the border with Mexico.<\/p>\n

A massive emergency operation was underway at the scene involving police, firefighters and ambulances.<\/p>\n

Texas Governor Greg Abbott hit, a Republican who advocates a tough line on immigration, hit out at President Joe Biden over the disaster — blaming his “deadly open border policies.”<\/p>\n

“These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott tweeted. “They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.”<\/p>\n

San Antonio was the site of a similar migrant tragedy in 2017, when 10 people suffocated to death in a sweltering trailer with broken air conditioning and clogged ventilation holes as they traveled into the United States.<\/p>\n

Dozens more had been hospitalized with heat stroke and dehydration — with the truck believed to have been holding as many as 200 people, most of whom fled when it stopped in a parking lot.<\/p>\n

“Lord have mercy on them. They hoped for a better life,” tweeted Gustavo Garcia-Siller, the archbishop of San Antonio after news broke of Monday's discovery.<\/p>\n

“Once again, the lack of courage to deal with immigration reform is killing and destroying lives.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday in and around a tractor-trailer that was abandoned on the side of a road in San Antonio, in central Texas, authorities said. The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years — and came five years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":79289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n