UK trial hears last desperate messages of Vietnamese migrants


In this file photo taken on October 23, 2019 British Police forensics officers work on lorry, found to be containing 39 dead bodies, at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London, on Oct 23, 2019. British jurors have heard heartrending phone messages left by a group of Vietnamese migrants who suffocated to death in a sealed truck container, during the prosecutor at the trial of four men in London. - AFP

London, Oct 9, 2020 (AFP): "I am sorry. I cannot take care of you. I cannot breathe." British jurors have heard heartrending phone messages left by a group of Vietnamese migrants who suffocated to death in a sealed truck container.

The prosecutor at the trial of four men said the 39 migrants -- including two boys aged 15 -- may have died because "greedy" people-smugglers attempted to carry out two lorryloads in one, after a previous one was intercepted by authorities.

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