Eighteen migrants were discovered lifeless in a truck in Bulgaria, a Balkan nation going through an inflow in fresh months now not observed because the 2015 migration disaster.
“According to initial elements, the vehicle was illegally transporting about 40 migrants hidden under bundles of wood,” the Interior Ministry introduced.
The motive in their loss of life is unknown at this degree, however a highway coincidence has been dominated out.
The police had been knowledgeable by means of citizens of the presence of an deserted truck close to the village of Lokorsko, about 20 km from the capital Sofia.
The smugglers who fled are being actively sought, the ministry stated, whilst the injured occupants had been taken to health center.
Bulgaria, the gateway to the European Union, has observed an upsurge in unlawful immigration into its territory during the last 12 months, in spite of the presence of a 234 km barbed twine fence alongside the border with Turkey.
This drama echoes the invention in 2019 of the our bodies of 39 Vietnamese in a refrigerated truck close to London.
Austria was once hit by means of a equivalent tragedy in 2019. Police discovered a refrigerated truck deserted at the facet of an Austrian freeway in Parndorf, close to the Hungarian border, with 71 decomposing our bodies of fellows, ladies and youngsters on board.
