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Dozens of corpses migrant found in and around an abandoned tractor on the side of a San Antonio street, Texas, United States of America (AS).
As reported AFPTuesday (28/6/2022), terrible find it is rated one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the US in recent years — and comes five years after a similar incident in the same city, just hours from the Mexican border.
“Currently we have processed about 46 bodies that were triaged and tagged and declared dead,” San Antonio Fire Service Chief Charles Hood told reporters.
Hood added that the other 16 migrants were taken to a local hospital alive and still conscious. The migrants so far consisted of 12 adult migrants and four child migrants.
“The patients we saw were hot to the touch, they had heat stroke, were exhausted from the heat, there was no sign of water in the vehicle, it was refrigerated tractors but no air conditioning units. function there,” said Hood.
Officials have reported that three people have been detained in connection with the incident. It was not explained further about the identity and war of the three people.
San Antonio, 250 kilometers from the US-Mexico border, is a major transit route for people smugglers. The vehicle containing the bodies of the migrants was found on a section of road near Highway I-35, a major US artery that runs all the way to the border with Mexico.
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