UK police reveal that the victims died from a combination of a lack of oxygen and overheating in an enclosed space. (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The French prosecutor's office said on May 27 that 26 people hadbeen arrested in France and Belgium in connection with the deaths of 39Vietnamese citizens found in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex, near the UK’s London capital last October.
Meanwhile, Belgian prosecutorsconfirmed the police had arrested 13 people as part of an investigation into the case.
Accordingto documents of the prosecutor’s office, Eamonn Harrison, a driver from North Ireland, drove the container truck,which carried the victims, to the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, where it wasput on a ferry to the UK and picked up at the other end by Maurice Robinson on the early morning of October 23.
Apart from the twosuspects, Gheorghe Nica of Basildon in eastern England was detained atGermany’s Frankfurt airport on January 29.
Another man, 22, was arrested in Northern Ireland on February 2 on suspicion of manslaughterand facilitating unlawful immigration.
OnFebruary 11, UK police revealedthat the victims died from a combination of a lack of oxygen and overheating inan enclosed space, adding that further investigation is underway./.
