WASHINGTON: A federal grand jury indicted 11 people on Friday for allegedly orchestrating a migrant smuggling operation to the United States that ended in the deaths of seven people travelling in a freight car, the Justice Department announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From April 2023 through May of this year, the defendants allegedly smuggled undocumented migr\u00adants into the US aboard freight trains, charging between $1,500 and $10,000 per crossing, the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the early hours of May 9, the smugglers allegedly loaded at least seven migrants into a Union Pacific freight railcar in Del Rio, Texas, on the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The railcar had no ventilation, while outside temperatures topped 31 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The train departed for San Antonio, where the smugglers reopened the railcar and found the migrants in distress, including one who was already dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The smugglers then allegedly left the body near the railroad track and fled, while the train continued on its journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOn May 10, a worker at the Union Pacific Rail Yard in Laredo saw a leg sticking out from a Conex shipping container,\u201d the Justice Department statement read. \u201cUpon inspection, six aliens were discovered deceased in the shipping container.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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