From a box to a coffin: The long and deadly road home for Vietnamese migrants


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  • Saturday, 30 Nov 2019

Nguyen Thi Huan visits the newly built grave of her son Nguyen Dinh Luong, who was found dead in the back of a British truck, at the homeland cemetery in Ha Tinh province, Vietnam November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kham

HANOI (Reuters) - They left Vietnam carrying dreams of small fortunes and the heavy burden of family expectations.

But they died in a box, and came home in coffins.

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