UPDATE: Four people die after being rescued from truck, raising death toll to 50 in smuggling case.
The death toll reaches 50 among those who were found and rescued from the back of a tractor-trailer found along a remote road in southwest San Antonio on Monday. Marissa, left, and Delilah Hernandez arrive near the scene to leave bouquets of flowers and pay their respects.Four of 16 people rescued from a sweltering truck Monday night have died, raising the death toll in the human smuggling tragedy to 50, officials said Tuesday.
Law enforcement authorities believe the migrants, some of whom were minors, were being smuggled into the United States from Mexico. It is by far the deadliest human smuggling incident to occur in San Antonio. In 2017, 39 migrants were discovered in an abandoned tractor-trailer in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio. Ten died, and the truck’s driver wasOver 28,000 San Antonians get stories like this delivered to their inboxes for free everyday.Success! You're on the list.
“You can as easily go and take a picture of my numbers and you go to those places where they sell those vinyl stickers … and you can just tell them, give me those two numbers,” Betancourt told the San Antonio Report.Betancourt said that although his trucks are insulated, the temperature inside can rise to 130 degrees.Meanwhile, the remaining two patients at Baptist Medical Center are in critical condition, the spokeswoman said.
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