{"id":872,"date":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","slug":"deaths-of-at-least-six-people-believed-to-be-due-to-heat-inside-shipping-container-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Deaths of at least six people believed to be due to heat inside shipping container in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventh body found near railroad tracks thought to be connected to what authorities call \u2018potential human smuggling event\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federal agents are investigating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/11\/six-people-found-dead-train-car-texas-mexico-border\">the deaths of at least six people<\/a> thought to be immigrants found inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the border with Mexico in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday as a \u201cpotential human smuggling event\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Officials reportedly have also said the death of a seventh person whose body was found near railroad tracks outside San Antonio, Texas \u2013 150 miles (241km) to the north \u2013 may be connected to the case.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian staff contributed reporting<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/deaths-six-people-shipping-container-texas-mexico\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventh body found near railroad tracks thought to be connected to what authorities call \u2018potential human smuggling event\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Federal agents are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=872\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}