UK jails last gang member in Vietnamese lorry tragedy


LONDON (AFP): The final member of a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in the back of a lorry in southeast England was jailed for seven years in the UK on Thursday.

The migrants -- the youngest of whom were two 15-year-old boys -- suffocated in the container as they were being transported to what they had hoped would be new lives in Britain.

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