Hoping
for a better life, here are the faces of the 39 people who are believed
to have frozen to death in the back of a truck after a desperate
attempt to reach Britain.
The victims were discovered Unclad, or
with minimal clothing, and had been desperately 'banging on the doors'
for help and had 'foam coming from their mouths'.
The bodies of
eight women and 31 men could have been frozen in the truck for several
days when they were discovered on Wednesday.
It is now thought that as many as 25 of the 39 victims are Vietnamese and from the same impoverished coastal region of Yen Than.
Moment family heard from a friend living in the UK that 'Nhung is one of the victims,'
Anna
Bui Thi Nhung, 19, from Vietnam paid an agent over $10,000 with the
hope of entering the U.K. to work as a nail technician, according to a
relative.
A relative looks at an image of Nhung.
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Pham
Thi Tra My, 26, sent her mother a series of harrowing messages telling
her she 'loved her' and was 'dying because she couldn't breathe' in the
moments before her death, her family have claimed.
In text
messages sent at 10.28pm GMT on Tuesday, Pham Thi Tra told her mother,
'I cant breathe here, I love you so much...I'm sorry.' Pictured, The
screenshot of Tra My's last text.
Pham Van Thin (right) and
Nguyen Thi Phong (left), father and mother of Tra My. They told CNN it
was 'very painful' to receive the text saying she must have known she
was going to die when she sent it.
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Gory!!! How can some one use $10k to meet her own death!!
This is so sad,
Looking at those parents you can tell that no one deserves this type of fate!!
God rest their souls
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Nguyen Dinh Luong, man from an impoverished Vietnamese province with dreams of a better life in Britain.
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A portrait of Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, is kept on a prayer altar inside his home in Can Loc district, Ha Tinh Province
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Father-of-two Vo Ngoc Nam, 28, is also feared to have been in the ill-fated container.
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It's very unfortunate. RIP to them.
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Cousins Hung Nguyen, 33, and Hoang Van Tiep were both feared to be in the container.
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Anna's
elder sister Bui Thi Loan (right) said they wanted her body repatriated
so she could be buried in the village that she had left in search of a
better life.
Anna's family sat smoking and drinking tea as a procession of visitors called to pay their respects at a makeshift shrine
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The
custom a small shrine bearing fruit and flowers surrounding a
photograph of Dinh Yu had been set up in a front room of the house.
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Hoping for a better life.
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I still dont undestand why they did not migrate legally.
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Police
yesterday seized cars belonging to an Irish haulage boss and his wife
who are being quizzed by detectives over the deaths of 39 migrants.
The
vehicles a white Chevrolet Corvette, grey Range Rover Sport and
Discovery Sport with personalised number plates, and a Kawasaki motor
bike are owned by Thomas and Joanna Maher, both 38.
The couple
were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic
people after a dramatic early morning raid on their £400,000 home in
Warrington, Cheshire on Friday.
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Bodies
of the 39 dead migrants are being moved one-by-one by private ambulance
from Tilbury docks to Chelmsford mortuary for post-mortem examinations.
This harrowing image shows a fleet of private ambulances arriving at Tilbury Docks to take away the victims.
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1000 staff to be hired.
People
trafficking and smuggling gangs are targeting ports along England's
east coast with perceived weaker security to sneak migrants into
Britain, it is feared.
Home Office said it is now in the process
of hiring 1,000 more staff to 'help maintain security' at borders. In
the last year, 900 officers were hired.
The data comes after 39
migrants were found dead in a lorry on Wednesday in the Essex town of
Grays, near Purfleet, the port where the container entered the UK.
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