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Death toll of migrants found in abandoned tractor-trailer in Texas rises to 50

Police guard an area at the scene where a tractor-trailer was discovered with migrants inside-outside San Antonio, Texas on June 27, 2022.- At least 46 migrants were found dead on June 27, 2022, in and around a tractor-trailer that was abandoned on the roadside on the outskirts of the Texas city of San Antonio.

SAN ANTONIO — The number of migrants who died after apparently being abandoned in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas rose to at least 50 on Tuesday, in a suspected border-smuggling attempt now under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.

Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said on Twitter on Tuesday that 22 Mexican nationals, seven Guatemalan nationals and two Honduran nationals had been identified.

“We are in mourning,” Ebrard wrote in Spanish.

The trailer was discovered Monday evening in southwestern San Antonio after

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