18 migrants found dead in abandoned truck in Bulgaria: police – National | 24CA News
Police in Bulgaria on Friday found an deserted truck containing the our bodies of 18 migrants, who appeared to have suffocated to dying.
The Interior Ministry mentioned that in keeping with preliminary data, the truck was carrying about 40 migrants and the survivors had been taken to close by hospitals for emergency remedy.
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Bulgarian Health Minister Assen Medzhidiev mentioned a lot of the survivors had been in very unhealthy situation.
“They have suffered from lack of oxygen, their clothes are wet, they are freezing, and obviously haven’t eaten for days,” Medzhidiev mentioned.
The truck was discovered deserted on a freeway close to the capital, Sofia. The driver was not there, however police found the passengers in a secret compartment under a load of timber.
Authorities didn’t instantly give the nationalities of the migrants. Bulgarian media reported all of them had been from Afghanistan.
Bulgaria, a Balkan nation of seven million and the poorest member of the European Union, is situated on a significant route for migrants from the Middle East and Afghanistan in search of to enter Europe from Turkey. Very few plan to remain, with most utilizing Bulgaria as a transit hall on their method westward.
Bulgaria has erected a barbed-wire fence alongside its 259-kilometer (161-mile) border with Turkey, however with the assistance of native human traffickers many migrants nonetheless handle to enter.
In Britain in October 2019, police discovered the our bodies of 39 individuals inside a refrigerated container that had been hauled to England. British police mentioned all of the victims, who ranged in age from 15 to 44, got here from impoverished villages in Vietnam and had been believed to have paid smugglers to take them on a dangerous journey to higher lives overseas.
Police mentioned they died of a mix of an absence of oxygen and overheating in an enclosed house. The truck found within the city of Grays, east of London, had arrived in England on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.
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