Texas death truck migrants took turns to breathe through a tiny hole
The death toll has risen, and the driver has been charged with transporting illegal aliens but insists he did not know he was transporting people
Chicago — A survivor of a horror truck journey in which 10 migrants suffocated to death has told how travellers took turns breathing through a tiny hole in a desperate bid to stay alive, US investigators said on Monday. As charges were filed against the driver, who was detained in Texas near the border with Mexico, one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet secretaries denounced the "brutality" of people-smuggling gangs. Two children were among a group of more than two dozen people still in hospital, suffering from heat stroke and dehydration, after an ordeal that ended in a parking lot. The migrants were discovered in the back of the 18-wheel truck in the early hours of Sunday in San Antonio, Texas, a two-hour drive from the US-Mexico border, when one of them approached a Walmart store employee asking for water. The employee brought water and then called police, who found 38 people crammed into the trailer with a broken refrigeration system, parked in the baking Texas heat. Eight peop...
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