The death toll of deceased migrants found inside a truck in Texas rose to 50 on Tuesday (June 28), Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The deceased migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday (June 27) in San Antonio, Texas, where temperatures swelled to a high of 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.4 degrees Celsius).
Local and U.S. authorities said there were no signs of water and no visible working air conditioning inside the truck.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said that its Homeland Security Investigations division was conducting a criminal investigation into "an alleged human smuggling event" in coordination with local police.
Sixteen other people found inside the trailer were transported to hospitals for heat stroke and exhaustion, including four minors, but no children were among the dead, the San Antonio Fire Department said.
