In addition to the many dead, another 16 people have been transported to hospital. We are talking about twelve adults and four children. According to the fire service, there are young people, but not children, among the 46 dead. The survivors must have been in varying conditions. They were exhausted and very hot, and several were unable to get out of the hold themselves. There was no water in the hold, the fire brigade informs. It was the local TV station KSAT that first reported the tragedy. The train where the many dead were found, and also 16 survivors. Photo: Jordan Vonderhaar / AFP Three people arrested The train with the many dead is the largest mass death ever in San Antonio. The city’s police chief William McManus told the press. He stated that three people had been arrested and that the case would be investigated at a national level by the FBI. McManus said police received a phone call Monday night from a person who had worked nearby and heard cries for help from the train. He had found the hold partly open, with many lifeless bodies. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg with San Antonio Police Chief William McManus, left, briefed the media and others at the scene after dozens of people were found dead. Photo: Eric Gay / AP – This is a terrible human tragedy. We hope that those responsible for these inhumane conditions will be prosecuted, said San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg at a press conference on the spot. US authorities have so far refused to confirm that the victims were migrants or which countries they were from. But Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard says two of the people taken to hospital have been identified and are from Guatemala. It reports Reuters. Blames Biden Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is now strongly opposed to President Joe Biden after the tragedy. He writes on Twitter that the deaths are due to Biden’s “open borders” policy. San Antonio is located about 250 kilometers from the border with Mexico and is an important transit route for human traffickers. There have been several cases, in a number of countries, where human traffickers transport refugees and migrants in cargo holds where there is not enough air, and where people are thus suffocated. The train was found abandoned in a remote area, near a railroad line southwest of San Antonio. This is not the first time that dead migrants have been found in this way near San Antonio. Ten migrants died in 2017 after being trapped inside a truck parked at a Walmart store in San Antonio. In 2003, 19 migrants were found in a burning truck southeast of San Antonio.
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