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Bodies without identification documents, remote villages without phone service, the need to share fingerprint data across borders and even stolen IDs are complicating efforts to identify the 51 dead migrants found in San Antonio as families from Mexico to Honduras worry their loved ones could be among them

SAN ANTONIO — The number of migrants who died after being abandoned in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas rose to 51 on Tuesday in what may be the deadliest human-smuggling accident in U.S. history.

"If the border was 'open'" as Abbott claims, migrants wouldn't pack themselves like sardines in trucks, lawyer says

At least 51 migrants have died after being trapped inside a sweltering tractor-trailer truck found abandoned in Texas, authorities said on Tuesday, as two Mexican nationals tied to the unprecedented smuggling tragedy were charged in U.S. federal court.

Law officials have described the San Antonio incident as one of the worst single migrant death tolls in recent years

Forty-six people have been found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in Texas

16 survivors, including four children, are ‘fighting for lives’ in hospital

At least 46 people have died and 16 others have been taken to hospital after they were discovered in the back of a lorry just 150 miles from the Mexico border.

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