After a man called 911 for emergency assistance in the San Antonio, Texas area, saying 80 people were trapped in a tanker truck with no air to breathe, the federal government and local authorities have launched a search and are learning whether the entire case involves human smuggling.
A man called 911 for emergency assistance in the San Antonio, Texas area, saying 80 people were trapped in a tanker truck and had no air to breathe. (Diagram/Image taken from Unsplash Gallery)
According to the Associated Press and CBS, the 911 call was recorded on the 8th, and a man can be heard calling for help in Spanish, saying that he and an estimated 80 people were in the tanker, “We can’t see anything, we’re in the tanker, there’s no oxygen in the tanker.” “We’re dying,” he said as he struggled to breathe.
He told 911 that they were in a white tanker that was currently parked and that he could hear cars passing outside; from the background of the call, he could hear someone gasping and screaming vigorously. After that, the phone hung up.
The call set off a search in Texas, surveillance footage shows a white tanker parked in the San Antonio (San Antonio) area.
Reuters reports that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation unit is learning whether the incident could be a human smuggling case.
The number of immigrants arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border, which had dropped steeply at the beginning of the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2019, has climbed again recently; U.S. officials handled nearly 78,000 immigrants in January, who either attempted to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border or were denied entry at customs, an increase of 6 percent over the previous month.
Neither the FBI’s San Antonio office nor the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office immediately returned media requests for comment.
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