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malaise

(268,968 posts)
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 07:04 AM Jul 2017

Eight people found dead in Trailer in San Antonio Texas

Apparently 40 plus people including lots of children were in back of the trailer. Seven have life threatening conditions.
Looks like heat and exhaustion - AC was not working - human smuggling. So much for the wall.

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Eight people found dead in Trailer in San Antonio Texas (Original Post) malaise Jul 2017 OP
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dalton99a

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3. Police chief gives more details:
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 07:27 AM
Jul 2017
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-30-injured-found-inside-semi-trailer-walmart/story?id=48799989

Speaking to reporters, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said authorities were notified after midnight by a Walmart employee, who had been approached by someone who had been in the truck, asking for water.

San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood, who stood alongside McManus at the press conference, said firefighters arrived on the scene at 12:26 a.m., and began pulling the people out of the truck, which had no working air conditioning. In a phone interview with CNN later in the morning, Hood said all of the dead were adult males and that some may have suffered brain damage from the intense heat conditions inside the truck.

Authorities said they are investigating where the truck arrived from, and said they don't yet know how long it had been parked. But surveillance video from the store showed that a number of vehicles entered the parking lot and "picked up lots of folks that were in that trailer that survived the trip," McManus said.

Some of the people who had been in the truck ran into the woods, he said. The area was searched, and another attempt will be made in the morning.
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