11 people indicted over deaths of six people in cargo container in Texas

A train enters the US over a rail bridge on the US-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, on 20 February 2025. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

A US attorney announced a federal indictment on Friday against 11 people in the smuggling deaths of six migrants whose bodies were found in a rail cargo container in Texas in May.

The six people were found dead in a rail yard shipping container in Laredo, on the US-Mexico border. They were from Honduras and Mexico and included a 14-year-old boy, all part of a human-smuggling effort on a freight train, authorities said.