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The driver opening it and seeing the rows of bodies.
39 bodies found in lorry
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Boz33
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Driver called the authorities in...I'm sure it was said he was looking for the loads documentation, opened the back up and found the bodies.
Also, sure I heard a snippet saying the cops had arrested another Irish fella last night at stansted airport, but may have misheard
Thanks for that. Horrific.
luvulongtime
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sima-hebburn
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thought they'd have to pull it for now
www.theguardian.com
Channel 4 postpones Smuggled broadcast after bodies found in lorry
Show in which people try to evade UK border checks was due to air on Monday
www.theguardian.com
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Sid James Park
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Theres always one idiot who trys to be funny about such a tragic episode.Idiot.
rapscallion
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Have you been in the back Denzil's van since then, Sid
Jon Dough
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Container deaths: 'Convoy of three lorries was heading to UK'
The container in which 39 people were found dead was part of a convoy of three lorries, relatives of the suspected victims say.
They believe that over 100 migrants were being brought to the UK on the lorries.
Two of the vehicles are thought to have completed their trips but the third, which was carrying the deceased victims, was delayed at an unknown location.
The eventual destinations of the two other containers are not known.
Sky News cannot independently verify the accounts.
A priest in the town where many of the victims are thought to have come from also said he heard similar accounts from family members.
Father Anthony Dang Huu Nam, a Catholic priest from Vietnam's Nghe An province, said he was aware of more than 100 people who were travelling to "a new life".
"A few families confirmed the deaths of their relatives who are the victims of this tragic journey," he said.
The priest earlier said he believed most of the victims were from neighbouring impoverished provinces in Vietnam.
Nam said he had been approached by a number of families who feared their relatives were among the dead.
Many victims of human trafficking are from Vietnam's poorest regions.
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered an investigation into human trafficking allegations.
The bodies of 39 people were found in a refrigerated lorry trailer at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, on Wednesday.
DCI Martin Pasmore of Essex Police has appealed for the families of suspected victims to come forward.
He said police were investigating to establish "whether there is a wider conspiracy involved".
Mr Pasmore told reporters he had spoken to the Vietnamese ambassador to the UK and added: "This is all about identifying our deceased, locate families and try to reunite them."
The father of Nguyen Dihn Tu, who is suspected to have died, said: "He was on that truck. All 39 was dead and he must be one of them. He is gone now. There is nothing left of him. He died."
Nguyen Dihn Sat told Reuters that relatives had called and told him his son was in the truck.
He said his son had been in the military and went abroad to seek work after being discharged.
Another victim is believed to be Anna Bui Thi Nhung from Nghe An province.
Her relatives said the 19-year-old had paid an agent over $10,000 (£7,915) in the hopes of travelling to the UK to become a nail technician.
"Many families in Yen Thanh have gotten rich from money sent back by their children working abroad," said Le Dình Tuan, a neighbour who was visiting the family.
The father of Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, also fears his son is among the dead.
He has been unable to get in contact since Luong said he would be joining a group in Paris to travel to the UK.
The family of a 26-year-old Vietnamese woman say they received harrowing messages in which she said she could not breathe and that she was "so sorry".
Her father, Pham Van Thin, told CNN: "The smugglers said that this was a... safe route, that people would go by airplane, car... if I had known she would go by this route, I would not have let her go."
The container in which 39 people were found dead was part of a convoy of three lorries, relatives of the suspected victims say.
They believe that over 100 migrants were being brought to the UK on the lorries.
Two of the vehicles are thought to have completed their trips but the third, which was carrying the deceased victims, was delayed at an unknown location.
The eventual destinations of the two other containers are not known.
Sky News cannot independently verify the accounts.
A priest in the town where many of the victims are thought to have come from also said he heard similar accounts from family members.
Father Anthony Dang Huu Nam, a Catholic priest from Vietnam's Nghe An province, said he was aware of more than 100 people who were travelling to "a new life".
"A few families confirmed the deaths of their relatives who are the victims of this tragic journey," he said.
The priest earlier said he believed most of the victims were from neighbouring impoverished provinces in Vietnam.
Nam said he had been approached by a number of families who feared their relatives were among the dead.
Many victims of human trafficking are from Vietnam's poorest regions.
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered an investigation into human trafficking allegations.
The bodies of 39 people were found in a refrigerated lorry trailer at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, on Wednesday.
DCI Martin Pasmore of Essex Police has appealed for the families of suspected victims to come forward.
He said police were investigating to establish "whether there is a wider conspiracy involved".
Mr Pasmore told reporters he had spoken to the Vietnamese ambassador to the UK and added: "This is all about identifying our deceased, locate families and try to reunite them."
The father of Nguyen Dihn Tu, who is suspected to have died, said: "He was on that truck. All 39 was dead and he must be one of them. He is gone now. There is nothing left of him. He died."
Nguyen Dihn Sat told Reuters that relatives had called and told him his son was in the truck.
He said his son had been in the military and went abroad to seek work after being discharged.
Another victim is believed to be Anna Bui Thi Nhung from Nghe An province.
Her relatives said the 19-year-old had paid an agent over $10,000 (£7,915) in the hopes of travelling to the UK to become a nail technician.
"Many families in Yen Thanh have gotten rich from money sent back by their children working abroad," said Le Dình Tuan, a neighbour who was visiting the family.
The father of Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, also fears his son is among the dead.
He has been unable to get in contact since Luong said he would be joining a group in Paris to travel to the UK.
The family of a 26-year-old Vietnamese woman say they received harrowing messages in which she said she could not breathe and that she was "so sorry".
Her father, Pham Van Thin, told CNN: "The smugglers said that this was a... safe route, that people would go by airplane, car... if I had known she would go by this route, I would not have let her go."
100 * 30,000 is a lot of dosh. Unless it’s in Vietnamese Dong.
Jon Dough
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Wouldn't get you the bus from the town to pennywell never mind illegally from SEA.
JohnSmithUK
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Driver charged.
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BBC News - Essex lorry deaths: Driver charged with manslaughter of 39 people
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BBC News - Essex lorry deaths: Driver charged with manslaughter of 39 people
Essex lorry deaths: Driver charged with manslaughter of 39 people
Maurice Robinson, 25, is charged with the manslaughter of 39 people in a trailer in Essex.
www.bbc.co.uk
Mackemansj1
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Aye just saw that, f***ing crazy all round this story.Driver charged.
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BBC News - Essex lorry deaths: Driver charged with manslaughter of 39 people
Essex lorry deaths: Driver charged with manslaughter of 39 people
Maurice Robinson, 25, is charged with the manslaughter of 39 people in a trailer in Essex.www.bbc.co.uk
Jon Dough
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I had an inkling he was a link in the chain, young guy £300,000 detached house, how much do truckers earn? Wasn't his girlfriend due to give birth to twins today? He is fu**ed!Driver charged.
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BBC News - Essex lorry deaths: Driver charged with manslaughter of 39 people
Essex lorry deaths: Driver charged with manslaughter of 39 people
Maurice Robinson, 25, is charged with the manslaughter of 39 people in a trailer in Essex.www.bbc.co.uk
Alan BStard
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Indeed
Jon Dough
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He has been charged with money laundering so he has done it in the past POCA will strip his assets to the bone,the father of one viet guy has just been on TV,his son had worked illegally in Romania and germany then decided on the UK,viet relatives already in the UK waited to collect him,he never arrived,they suspect he is one of the dead.
AlpineExile
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Are you claiming that what fullfact states is incorrect?It's fullfact mate, debunked as taking coin from the same group as backed Gina Miller/Best for Britain anti Brexit group. That's not to say there isn't an element of truth in it, but no way I'm believing anything fullfact come out with as...well fact
ouro
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One of them reportedly paid £30,000 to traffickers to bypass the legal route.
Sgt Pepper
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Probably a daft question but why would he report it to the police when he found the bodies if he was involved in some dodgy way? I’d have thought he’d shit himself and ring his superiors to see if they can just dispose of the bodies somehow and hope there is no trace of them that can be linked back to them.
Jon Dough
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Panic maybe?Wasnt expecting them to be dead,he was maybe expecting a live headcount.Smoke-and-mirrors attempt to clumsily deflect attention away from himself?The story or a version of it will come out though,always does.
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