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Rescue workers remove remains of passenger from the train.

Officials said that only 18 of the dead were immediately identifiable.

At least 70 people have been killed after gas cooking stoves exploded and set fire to a crowded train in Pakistan.

More than 30 people were wounded, some critically, in the blaze which started when two gas stoves being used by poorer passengers to cook breakfast on Thursday morning blew up.

As smoke and flames tore through the train, desperate passengers threw themselves out of the moving carriages - many of them jumping to their deaths.

Children were among those killed in the blaze, according to local reports.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7634065/At-65-killed-Pakistan-train-blaze-gas-stoves-explode.html

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Cousins Hung Nguyen, 33, and Hoang Van Tiep were both feared to be in the container.

Father-of-two Vo Ngoc Nam, 28, is also feared to have been in the ill-fated container.

A portrait of Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, is kept on a prayer altar inside his home in Can Loc district, Ha Tinh Province

Nguyen Dinh Luong, man from an impoverished Vietnamese province with dreams of a better life in Britain.

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.

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 naked, 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.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7618377/Family-youngest-death-truck-victim-19-beg-body-returned-home.html

The south-eastern province of Fujian in China has a long histories of sending migrants abroad for cash

1000 staff to be hired.


eople 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.

The 39 migrants who died after being locked in a freezing container en-route to the UK left 'bloody handprints' on the inside of the doors and walls of the 'coffin' where their bodies were found.

It is grim evidence of the victims' desperate final moments while locked inside the container.

The husband and wife named by MailOnline as the last known owners of the lorry carrying 39 migrants who froze to death were arrested today after police swooped on their £400,000 Cheshire home.

The 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.

20-year-old Nguyen Dinh Luong has also been named by relatives as a possible victim of the Essex lorry deaths.

Vietnamese victims are thought to be among 39 migrants who were found dead in a lorry in the Purfleet area of Essex on Wednesday.

It comes as families continue to pray for news of their relatives who set off on perilous journeys to the UK, after it was revealed that one woman had text her mother from inside the 'metal coffin'.

Pham Thi Tra My sent her mother a series of harrowing messages telling her she 'loved her' and was 'dying because she couldn't breathe.'


Her family claim the 26-year-old paid people smugglers £30,000 to travel to the UK via China 'in search of a better life.'


The text messages sent at 10.28pm GMT on Tuesday, Pham Thi Tra told her mother, 'I love you so much...I'm sorry.' Pictured, The screenshot of Tra My's last text.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7613755/Vietnamese-woman-feared-39-migrants-froze-death.html

Scanners used to detect stowaways in lorries but sources claim they don't work as well on refrigerated units.

This is image was taken at Dover, showing migrants sitting on top of boxes inside a traditional container.

The refrigerated container was used to smuggle 39 Chinese nationals into the UK because it evaded detection by thermal imaging equipment, security staff at the port where it entered Britain have claimed.

The container arrived at Purfleet port, Essex, on the River Thames from Zeebrugge, Belgium.

Security personnel at both ports are equipped with thermal cameras which are used to try and detect stowaways.

These are used for traditional containers but not refrigerated ones.

One security official, who did not want to be named, said:
'Thermal imaging equipment doesn't work on refrigerated containers. They are simply too cold, and you can't pick up any heat that might be coming from somebody hidden inside.

'The smuggling gang must have known this, it just goes to show how clever they are.

They are constantly looking for loopholes and sadly, it's ended up with all these people losing their lives.'

The Mayor of Thurrock Terry Piccolo, Superintendent Craig Saunders and Chief Inspector Claire Talbot (left to right) sign the Book of Condolence opened in the Council Chamber of Thurrock Council in Grays today.



London to Belfast, people gathered with candles and many bowed their heads as they thought of the dead.

Previously,

https://www.nairaland.com/5489672/police-found-39-frozen-bodies



The 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry trailer in Essex were Chinese nationals who had travelled 5,000miles locked up for days, detectives have said.

Eight of the victims are women and 31 are men. All are adults.

One female victim was previously thought to have been a teenager. Officers said she is a “young adult woman”.

Police have begun the process of moving the bodies from the lorry to a mortuary.

The first 11 victims are being transported under police escort by private ambulance from the Port of Tilbury to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, having left the port at 7.41pm.

Staff from the Chinese embassy in London are expected to visit the scene where the bodies were found, the AFP news agency reported.

An embassy spokesperson said: “We read with heavy heart the reports about the death of 39 people in Essex, England.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/essex-lorry-deaths-china-victims-police-arrest-mo-robinson-grays-a9169076.html

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[quote author=Annibiteye post=83410784][/quote]They dont really post graphics, bodies were inside till yesterday afternoon when truck was taken away.

Previously.

The driver, who lives in the Northern Irish village of Laurelvale in County Armagh, drove out of the port 35 minutes later with it attached to his lorry.

He drove his Scania truck one mile to an industrial estate in Grays, Essex, where he arrived at 1.10am yesterday.

CCTV footage has emerged of the lorry driving towards the Waterglade Industrial Park minutes before the shocking discovery inside the container.

An ambulance control room then received a 999 call informing them of the bodies in the container.

Police are trying to establish when the group got inside and if smugglers found the container for them and then locked the door behind them.

The container was placed on a cargo ship on Tuesday, which then set sail around 2pm.

The choppy Channel crossing took around ten hours before the ship docked at the Essex port of Purfleet on the Thames at 12.30am yesterday.


It is known the lorry has a Bulgarian registration and entered the UK in Holyhead on Saturday.

Hauliers have suggested that, if the lorry had traveled from Bulgaria, it may have gone on a ferry from France to Ireland before coming to the UK. However, it is unclear where the lorry originated.




Police officers were shown to be lined up next to the passing lorry today and bowed their head in respect for those who had died in the tragedy.

Police in forensics suits were seen worked on the cab end of the lorry, which is Bulgarian registered.

It is not known where those found inside got in.

Bulgarian authorities have said the lorry was previously registered in the Bulgarian coastal city of Varna by a company owned by an Irish woman.

Local TV channel BNR said the truck was registered in June 2017, left the next day and has not since returned.

The fact that the lorry arrived at Holyhead on Saturday suggests those who died may have been in the back of the vehicle for at least four days.

39 migrants, locked inside a bitterly cold and airless shipping container, never stood a chance as their cries for help fading away with no one to hear them.

Police in England have opened a murder investigation after 39 dead bodies were found inside a container truck on Wednesday.

The police have yet to determine any of the victims’ identities.

Who were they, where were they going, and where were they from. It was all a mystery.

But one thing was heartbreakingly clear, when the authorities peered into the container truck Wednesday morning, none of the 39 people inside was alive.

Their bodies were found after someone officials have not said who called an ambulance and the police came to investigate.

The passengers, all of whom appeared to be adults, were declared dead at the scene.

Experts yesterday said the temperature inside the refrigerated trailer unit, which is said to usually carry biscuits, might have been as low as -25C.


The driver from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.




https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7604041/amp/39-dead-bodies-container-Thurrock-police-say.html

GogetterMD:
I was waiting to see where you'd show us the Alaafin of Oyo, the Ooni of Ife, and the Oba of Benin arriving the event

....Like someone said up there, kings of Nations are present here, not king of town.