The discovery was made in the early hours after emergency services were alerted to people in the truck container, on a gritty industrial site in Grays, about 20 miles from central London. The driver of the truck, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland, was in custody. Bulgaria’s foreign ministry said it could not confirm at this stage whether the truck had started its journey from the country. Police officers in forensic suits were on Wednesday inspecting a large white container on a red truck next to warehouses at the site. In Britain’s biggest illegal immigrant tragedy in 2000, British customs officials found the bodies of 58 Chinese people crammed into a tomato truck at the southern port of Dover.

Source: National Post October 23, 2019 11:03 UTC