San Antonio body linked to 6 found dead in Laredo boxcar

May 12 (UPI) — Authorities said a body found along train tracks in San Antonio on Monday is connected to the six people discovered dead in a boxcar in a Texas-Mexico border city over the weekend.

No arrests have been made amid the investigation into the discovery Sunday of six bodies in a train car in Laredo, a South Texas city along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told reporters Monday afternoon from the side of a road in San Antonio that a seventh body had been found near where he was standing by Union Pacific police at about 1:30 p.m. CDT.

He said the victim was a male, whose age and identity have yet to be determined. The body had already begun decomposing, he said…

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