Bulgarian police find 18 Afghan migrants dead in abandoned truck


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  • Friday, 17 Feb 2023

An ambulance leaves the site after at least 18 people were found dead in Bulgaria in an abandoned truck near the capital Sofia according to the Bulgarian Interior Ministry in Bulgaria February 17 2023. REUTERSStoyan Nenov

An ambulance leaves the site after at least 18 people were found dead in Bulgaria in an abandoned truck near the capital Sofia, according to the Bulgarian Interior Ministry, in Bulgaria, February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian police have arrested four people after they found the bodies of 18 dead migrants from Afghanistan, including that of a child, in an abandoned truck near the capital Sofia, officials said on Friday.

The truck was transporting timber and carrying illegal migrants hidden in compartments, the interior ministry said in a statement, adding it was found near the village of Lokorsko.

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