Mystery after bodies found on train near Texas border town

The bodies were found in a boxcar in a Union Pacific train yard (Picture: Getty)

Police are investigating after a train boxcar was found with six bodies in a rural Texas town near the Mexican border.

A Union Pacific train worker found the bodies in a train yard in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday afternoon.

It’s not clear how the victims died, but Laredo Police are investigating the grim discovery.

It’s unclear if the victims are migrants, but a similar instance in 2022 saw 46 people found dead in the back of a trailer in San Antonio, Texas.

Police were called and arrived to find one body on the ground and a partially opened gate to the seemingly abandoned tractor-trailer.

Body bags were soon spread across the surrounding ground in a grim symbol of the sheer scale of the tragedy.

A team from U.S. Homeland Secur...