Fifty-one people found dead in the back of a lorry were covered with steak seasoning, in what is believed to be an attempt to cover up their smell.
Smugglers were transporting the people, believed to be migrants across the Mexico-US border and it has been claimed some of them tried to escape the vehicle as a body was found on the street.
Alongside the horrific death toll, at least a dozen others were hospitalised after they were discovered in the abandoned tractor-trailer rig on Monday on a remote back road in Texas, US.