UK police say migrants found in shipping container are Afghan Sikhs


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  • Sunday, 17 Aug 2014

LONDON (Reuters) - Police said on Sunday that 35 people discovered in a shipping container at a British port were Afghan Sikhs and that survivors would be questioned about how they came to be there.

One man died after a group of suspected migrants, including women and children, was found inside a container at Tilbury docks in southeast England on Saturday morning. The container had come on a ship from Zeebrugge in Belgium.

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