The 39 people found dead in the truck came from China – News

The 39 people found dead in the container of a truck in an industrial park in Essex, southeast of England, were of Chinese nationality, reported Thursday the British police, the United Kingdom. United shocked by this case of human trafficking.

The victims, eight women and 31 men, including a teenager, were discovered in the Waterglade Industrial Park in the city of Grays, early Wednesday.

The police of Essex said in a statement that the open investigation into multiple homicides was the largest in the history of force and that "We think all the victims are Chinese citizens".

The 39 people will undergo a full autopsy to determine the cause of death before proceeding to their identification, police said.

According to the press, according to the Belgian authorities who have also opened an investigation into the case, the truck has returned from the port of the city of Zeebrugge, in the north of Belgium, to that of Purfleet, in Belgium. East of the United Kingdom.

The driver of the truck, Mo Robinson, a 25-year-old Norwegian has been arrested and is being questioned as a homicide suspect.

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The increase in controls in ports such as Dover, in the south-east of the UK, and the French city of Calais, has resulted in smuggling of illegal migrants onto other roads, warned the various freight transport associations.

In 2000, the bodies of 58 Chinese nationals were found in Dover in a truck.

Shaun Sawyer, head of the Council of Chiefs of the British National Police for the cases of modern slavery and human trafficking, told the chain BBC that his forces had prevented thousands of deaths.

"Tragically, this is not the case of 39 people found yesterday," was killed in the truck in Essex.