The death toll in a suspected immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong in Texas has risen to 9 after two people died in hospital, officials said.

Eight people have been found dead in a tractor trailer outside a Walmart store in Texas in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case.

A robbery at a Texas shopping mall left one person who tried to intervene dead, three others shot and another two people in hospital.

A US woman whose two young sons were found dead in their Texas home told police: “I just killed my babies,” officers said today.

OTTY SANCHEZ, a schizophrenic with a history of hospitalisations who butchered her son this week, refused to take medication for her postpartum depression, her son’s father said.