2026年5月11日 美国东部时间晚上7:13 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
据当局消息，周一在得克萨斯州圣安东尼奥西南铁轨旁被发现的一名男子，被认为与墨西哥边境附近一个货运集装箱内疑似中暑死亡的六人有关联。
贝尔县警长哈维尔·萨拉查周一表示，第七具遗体的发现地点距离拉雷多的联合太平洋铁路调车场以北近150英里，周日下午六人遗体正是在该调车场附近被发现。美国移民和海关执法局在发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的声明中表示，该机构正在将集装箱内的死亡事件作为一起潜在的人口走私案件展开调查。
萨拉查称，调查人员是在收到警报后发现第七具遗体的——周末期间该区域附近有一个集装箱曾被打开过。
这张由KGNS提供的视频画面显示，2026年5月10日周日，联合太平洋铁路的车厢停靠在得克萨斯州拉雷多的一处调车场。（KGNS via 美联社） 美联社
“这些列车的部分集装箱装有传感器，一旦集装箱被打开就会发出警报，”萨拉查对记者表示，“在拉雷多发现那些遗体后，他们返回该区域，沿着铁轨来回巡逻，直到找到这名男子。”萨拉查指出，集装箱无法从内部打开。
这位警长表示，周一发现遗体的列车来自德尔里奥，在圣安东尼奥附近拆分，其中一半车厢开往拉雷多，另一半开往休斯顿，这表明该集装箱内曾可能搭载过更多人。
“目前我们尚不清楚，打开集装箱是为了让成功逃生的人员离开，还是仅仅为了丢弃遗体，”萨拉查说。
据警长介绍，周一被发现的男子身份已确认，随身带有墨西哥身份证件。
萨拉查称，圣安东尼奥警方周六接到了一名集装箱内人员亲属的报案。这名居住在其他州的亲属在电话中告诉警方，他们收到一条消息称“里面越来越热，他们因高温出现了一些身体不适”。
萨拉查表示，发送这条消息的人被认为是已发现的六名死者之一。
这张由KGNS提供的视频画面显示，2026年5月10日周日，得克萨斯州拉雷多一处调车场的联合太平洋铁路标识。 美联社
负责尸检的韦伯县法医科琳·斯特恩博士表示，她认为遇难者来自墨西哥和洪都拉斯。针对一名29岁墨西哥女性的尸检结果显示，其死因是体温过高，即中暑。
“我已将其判定为意外死亡，”斯特恩说，“我认为其余遇难者大概率也都死于中暑，但目前他们的尸检尚未完成，因此我还不能确定他们的死因和死亡方式。”
据哥伦比亚广播公司下属电视台KENS-TV报道，周日下午拉雷多的气温达到97华氏度，这意味着集装箱内的体感温度可能超过100华氏度。
联合太平洋铁路周日在一份声明中表示，该公司“对这起事件感到悲痛，正与执法部门密切配合开展调查”。
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Texas sheriff says 7th body could be tied to shipping container deaths, as ICE opens human smuggling probe
May 11, 2026 7:13 PM EDT / CBS News
A man who was found dead Monday by the railroad tracks southwest of San Antonio, Texas, is believed to be connected to the six people who likely died of heat stroke inside a shipping container near the Mexico border, according to authorities.
The body of the seventh person was located nearly 150 miles north of a Union Pacific rail yard in Laredo, where the six bodies were discovered on Sunday afternoon, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Monday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CBS News in a statement that the agency is investigating the deaths inside the boxcar as a potential human smuggling incident.
Salazar said investigators found the seventh person after there was an alert that one of the containers had been opened at some point over the weekend near the location.
In this image taken from video footage provided by KGNS, Union Pacific train cars are stationed at a rail yard in Laredo, Texas, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (KGNS via AP) AP
“On these trains, there is a censor on some of the containers that alerts whenever a container’s opened,” Salazar told reporters. “Once those bodies were found in Laredo, they came back to this location here and started patrolling up and down the railroad tracks until such time that they found him.” Salazar said the container cannot be opened from the inside.
The sheriff said the train that contained the body found Monday was from Del Rio and had split up near San Antonio, with one half going to Laredo and the other to Houston, suggesting it’s possible there might have been more people in the container at some point.
“At this point, we don’t know if it was opened to let people that made it out successfully or they just opened it to dump the body,” Salazar said.
The person found Monday was identified as a man carrying Mexican identification, according to the sheriff.
Salazar said San Antonio police received a report Saturday from a relative of one of the people inside the container. The relative, who lives in another state, told police in a phone call that they received a message saying “it was getting very, very hot and they were having some physical trouble as a result of it,” Salazar said.
The sheriff said the person who sent the message is believed to be among the six who were found dead.
In this image taken from video footage provided by KGNS, Union Pacific signage is displayed at a rail yard in Laredo, Texas, Sunday, May 10, 2026. AP
Webb County Medical Examiner Dr. Corinne Stern, who is conducting autopsies, said she believes the individuals originated from Mexico and Honduras. An autopsy completed for a 29-year-old Mexican woman revealed she died of hyperthermia, or heat stroke.
“I’ve ruled that an accidental death,” Stern said. “I believe that the remaining individuals probably all succumbed to heat stroke as well, but their exams are not completed at this time, so I will not rule on their cause and manner yet.”
Temperatures reached 97 degrees in Laredo on Sunday afternoon, which means it probably felt hotter than 100 degrees in the boxcar, according to CBS affiliate KENS-TV.
Union Pacific said in a statement Sunday that it was “saddened by this incident and is working closely with law enforcement to investigate.”
Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.
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