A global look at some of the deadliest incidents involving trafficked migrants in trucks or shipping containers:— June 27, 2022: 50 migrants died after being abandoned in a sweltering tractor-trailer on a remote back road in San Antonio. — Feb. 20, 2017: 13 African migrants suffocated inside a shipping container while being transported between two towns in Libya. — April 4, 2009: 35 Afghan migrants suffocated inside a shipping container in southwestern Pakistan. — April 9, 2008: 54 Burmese migrants suffocated in the back of an airtight refrigerated truck in Ranong, Thailand. — May 14, 2003: 19 migrants died inside a sweltering tractor-trailer while they traveled from South Texas to Houston.

Source: Libya Today June 28, 2022 03:44 UTC