Two guilty in UK over Vietnamese migrant deaths


In this file photo taken on Oct 23, 2019 UK police officers work near a lorry, believed to have originated from Bulgaria, and found to be containing 39 dead bodies, inside a police cordon at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London, on Oct 23, 2019. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP)

LONDON (AFP): Two people were found guilty on Monday (Dec 21) of manslaughter and people smuggling over the gruesome discovery of 39 dead Vietnamese migrants in the back of a lorry in England last year.

The bodies of the men and women were found inside a sealed container near London in October 2019 after suffocating in sweltering temperatures.

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