The 39 dead found in a truck in the UK were Chinese

On Wednesday, British police were alerted by the rescue services of finding a truck with corpses in an industrial area of ​​the city of Grays, about 30 kilometers from London.

Since then, an inquiry has been opened to clarify the circumstances of these deaths, which have already prompted the government to call for a stronger fight against illegal migration, who use very risky and unsafe methods to evade controls.

In the night of Wednesday to Thursday, British police recorded two properties in Northern Ireland. The truck driver, a 25-year-old Norwegian, has been in detention since Wednesday and is currently under investigation for murder.

According to the British press, it is Mo Robinson, a resident of Portadown, County Armagh, where searches have been conducted in recent hours.

On Thursday, the authorities focused on the path followed by this truck before arriving on the outskirts of London. According to British police, the caravan of the truck arrived in Zeebrugge, Belgium, on Monday at Purfleet, a Thames port, Belgium, while the cab of the truck that was towing the container left Northern Ireland.

The Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office confirmed that the truck's container had "passed through Zeebrugge on Tuesday, 22 October". "For the moment, we do not know when the victims entered the truck and he was in Belgium," said the prosecutor's office.

The Bulgarian authorities also confirmed the vehicle registration in Bulgaria in 2017, but assured that the vehicle had not returned to the country since then. "There is no connection with us, only with the registration plates," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told local television.

The head of the British government, Boris Johnson, he stated "horrified by this tragic event. "All traffickers of human beings must be prosecuted and prosecuted"He told Parliament.

According to the National Crime Control Agency (NCA), the number of smugglers entering the UK in containers and trucks has increased in recent years.

In recent reports, the NCA has regretted "the increasing use of increasingly risky illegal entry methods", mainly from the port of Calais, France, from Zeebrugge or through the La Mancha tunnel.

This case recalls that of Austria in 2015, when 71 migrants were found dead by suffocation in the sealed compartment of an abandoned truck on a road.