The Daily Populous Monday May 11st, 2026 day edition
Authored by nbcnews.com and submitted by KimJongFunk

Six people were found dead in a cargo train boxcar near a Laredo, Texas, rail yard Sunday, officials said.

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Police responded after a Union Pacific employee called to report a “trailer box car with the discovery of multiple casualties in the car” around 3 p.m. local time, police said.

The ages of the victims and the origin of the train were not immediately released. Jose Baeza, an investigator with the Laredo Police Department, said those questions are “at the crux of the ongoing fluid investigation.”

The Webb County medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death, police said.

Baeza said the rail yard is miles long.

“Imagine a loading dock at a seaport, but for trains,” he said in a phone interview. “This is where they load and unload a lot of rail cars.”

A Union Pacific spokesperson said in a statement that the company is “saddened by this incident” and is “working closely with law enforcement to investigate.”

Laredo, which borders Mexico, has one of Texas’s largest ports of entry facilitating commercial trade. As of 2024, Port Laredo accounted for 62% of the state’s land port trade, valued at nearly $340 billion, according to data collected by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.

Temperatures in Laredo on Sunday hit a high of 97 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

lormightymike on May 11st, 2026 at 03:02 UTC »

Reminds me of the beginning of Season 2 of the Wire when they found 13 dead women in the shipping container.

YcemeteryTreeY on May 11st, 2026 at 02:36 UTC »

Sadly it was probably human smuggling. Smugglers dont care, they will abandon everyone if they think theyre going to get caught.

KimJongFunk on May 11st, 2026 at 02:28 UTC »

Article text:

> Six people were found dead in a cargo train boxcar near a Laredo, Texas, rail yard Sunday, officials said.

> Police responded after a Union Pacific employee called to report a “trailer box car with the discovery of multiple casualties in the car” around 3 p.m. local time, police said.

> The ages of the victims and the origin of the train were not immediately released. Jose Baeza, an investigator with the Laredo Police Department, said those questions are “at the crux of the ongoing fluid investigation.”

> The Webb County medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death, police said. Baeza said the rail yard is miles long.

> “Imagine a loading dock at a seaport, but for trains,” he said in a phone interview. “This is where they load and unload a lot of rail cars.”

> A Union Pacific spokesperson said in a statement that the company is “saddened by this incident” and is “working closely with law enforcement to investigate.

> Laredo, which borders Mexico, has one of Texas’s largest ports of entry facilitating commercial trade. As of 2024, Port Laredo accounted for 62% of the state’s land port trade, valued at nearly $340 billion, according to data collected by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.

> Temperatures in Laredo on Sunday hit a high of 97 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.