They find the truck from where immigrants asked for help because they were suffocating, in Texas

A person is arrested in Texas in connection with a truck transporting 12 immigrants and that he was wanted after receiving a suffocation distress call

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For: EFE 12 February 2021

HOUSTON, Texas – A person has been arrested in Texas in connection with the case of the cargo truck that was apparently transporting inside near 80 undocumented immigrants and from where at least two people reported by phone being on the verge of suffocation , according to local media.

The authorities of Bexar County, where the city of San Antonio is based ( Texas ), released Wednesday 06 February two audios received by the emergency call service in which at It looked like two people claimed to be trapped in a truck and short of breath.

“We don’t see anything, we are inside a pipe (truck ci sterna). God, we don’t have oxygen ”, a person is heard saying in one of the calls to 911.

“We are like eighty people. The truck is stopped. It makes me feel like (we are) on the side of the road because you can hear the cars, ”adds the voice in Spanish, while at the same time the laments and groans of other people are heard.

The immigrant, with shortness of breath, manages to answer the operator seconds before the call was cut that he apparently was in a “white pipe.”

In another call, the person says with difficulty to the operator that “we are dying”

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The authorities managed find the tanker this Thursday, after having obtained surveillance camera images through a trace the cell phone communication towers where the parked vehicle can be seen.