Update: At least two people are dead, police said in a statement, after authorities responded to a 911 call from an unknown third party. More from TPRNews:
Uvalde police said in a statement Friday event that at least 15 people were found"suffocating" in a train car near Knippa, just east of Uvalde, Texas."Two of the immigrants were pronounced deceased," the statement added.
In an interview with TPR, Don McLaughlin, the mayor of Uvalde, reported similar information. He said he learned the train had sat on the tracks, in the afternoon sun, for about three hours. The mayor explained that his information came from the Uvalde Police Department and the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council, or STRAC, which medically serves 22 counties in the region. STRAC was the lead agency in the response effort.
Uvalde police said in its statement that the Union Pacific railroad was leading the investigation into what happened on the train.
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