From Del Rio to Laredo: The journey of seven migrants who suffocated on a Union Pacific train in Texas
From a Union Pacific train, a migrant woman texted a relative on Saturday. The railway car she was in felt very hot, she wrote. That day, the temperature in San Antonio, Texas, where the train was traveling, reached nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius). Authorities estimate that the heat index inside the shipping containers could have reached as high as 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius). San Antonio police were alerted to the woman’s text messages, but they were unable to locate the train.
