Authorities discovered the bodies of six people inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday afternoon. The victims, five men and one woman, are believed to have died from heat stroke as temperatures climbed to 97 degrees.
Workers inspecting containers at the rail yard near the U.S.-Mexico border found the bodies. Laredo police and fire crews responded and confirmed the deaths. The Webb County medical examiner has ruled the death of a 29-year-old Mexican woman an accident due to hyperthermia and expects similar findings for the others once autopsies are complete.
