Tractor-trailer Survivor Says People Cried, Asked For Water

By FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Mon, 07/24/2017 - 3:50pm

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Adan Lalravega said he was told the $5,500 he was being charged to be smuggled into the United States would include an air-conditioned truck ride. [...] the 27-year-old Mexican laborer climbed with his friends into a pitch-black, metal tractor-trailer compartment that lacked ventilation — a deadly oven that would claim 10 lives. Another passenger, described in the criminal complaint only by his initials, told officials that he also was from Aguascalientes. When the truck reached its destination, the rear doors were opened and people started swarming out. The man said he did not see who opened the trailer doors nor did he see the truck driver, according to the complaint. Mexican consular officials say they are providing legal representation for the survivors and that Lalravega had been visited by one.

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