51 Migrants Dead After Overheated Truck Is Abandoned in Texas
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The discovery in San Antonio led to the arrest of three people, and several survivors remained in dire condition. It comes as authorities are struggling with a border surge.
The tractor-trailer sat on the worn-out asphalt of Quintana Road, a debris-strewn urban hinterland between train tracks and salvage yards. Its rear doors hung loose and open, and for a distance along the baking pavement several bodies lay dead in the roadway.
At first, the truck drew little notice against the backdrop of a Monday afternoon in industrial San Antonio. That was the idea: It was meant to be one leg in a sprawling and mostly hidden smuggling network of cars and trucks, guides and stash houses used to convey thousands upon thousands of people illegally into the United States.
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