8 found dead, 30 injured in truck in Texas parking lot
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Police in San Antonio, Texas is looking for human traffickers responsible for the deaths and injuries of people in a truck parked outside a Walmart
Eight people have been found dead inside a truck in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas in what police described as a "human trafficking crime."
Another 28 people were injured -- 20 of them severely -- and were being treated at seven local hospitals, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus and Fire Chief Charles Hood told reporters Sunday.
The police chief said the group included children, but later told CNN that the eight dead were adult men.
He said the truck driver had been arrested.
Hood said the air conditioner in the trailer was not working.
San Antonio lies a few hours drive from the border with Mexico's Nuevo Leon state. Weather in the area has been hot and dry.
The deadly discovery, sadly "is not an isolated incident. This happens quite frequently under cover of night," McManus said.
The smugglers in their haste to evade authorities often leave passengers without air conditioning, and often without air to breathe.
San Antonio, is the seventh-most populated city in the United States.
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