50 people found dead inside an abandoned truck

50 people have been found dead inside an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas. There are also 16 injured, including four children, some in critical condition. In that area, temperatures have exceeded 39 degrees for days.

Authorities in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras confirmed that nationals of their countries were among the victims.

According to a 2020 report from the Guatemalan President's Office, 84% of Nahualá's residents live in poverty and 13% live in extreme poverty.

Most households do not live in overcrowded conditions and 99.37% of households are single-family homes, according to the country's National Statistics Institute.

People seeking to enter the country this way usually pay smugglers fees in excess of $12,000 to get them across the U.S.-Mexico border.

The San Antonio massacre is one of the worst in American history. In 2003 nineteen migrants were found dead in a truck in Texas: the driver of the vehicle had asked $7,500 per person for the "passage" and had never turned on the air conditioning, so much so that temperatures inside the truck had exceeded the 70 degrees. In 2017, then, ten migrants were found dead in Texas aboard a truck in a Walmart parking lot.