Investigation in progress: Police officers driving away the lorry in which the bodies were found at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London. (Below) Cau said police were treating the case as a smuggling incident rather than people-trafficking. — AFP
HANOI: Police in Vietnam have arrested eight people in connection with the discovery of 39 dead people, all believed to be Vietnamese, in a truck near London last month, state media said, bringing the total number of arrests in Vietnam to 10.
British police last week charged two men with manslaughter over the deaths of the group, whose bodies were found inside a container on the truck on Oct 23.
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