The arrests target the ring of smugglers suspected of organizing the migrants' journey.
ARRESTS. In this file photo, a police officer secures the cordon at at the scene where a truck, believed to have originated from Bulgaria, and found to be containing 39 dead bodies, was discovered at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London, on October 23, 2019. File photo by Ben Stansall/AFP
In Belgium – where some of the victims stayed before their fateful journey – police held 13 people, including 11 Vietnamese nationals. Post-mortem tests found the victims died from lack of oxygen and overheating, and one sent a poignant text message to her family in Vietnam as she lay dying in the truck.
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