LONDON (AFP): Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated to death in "unbearable" heat in a container truck after a people-smuggling operation went catastrophically wrong, a London court heard on Wednesday (Oct 7).
The trial opened at the Old Bailey of four men accused in connection with the deaths of 31 Vietnamese men and eight women -- 10 among them teenagers, including two 15-year-old boys -- whose bodies were found in the lorry in southeast England last October.
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