Sixty-four bodies found in shipping container in Mozambique

CNN)The bodies of 64 male migrants were discovered Tuesday in a sealed shipping container at a checkpoint in Tete, Mozambique, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM).

In a statement released Tuesday night, IOM confirmed that 14 survivors were rescued by local authorities and are being treated at a local hospital.

The survivors told local authorities that they were Ethiopians headed to South Africa.

The truck driver and his assistant, both Mozambicans, were arrested, provincial immigration spokesman Amelia Direito told AFP.

She said the driver told police he had been promised 30,000 meticais (about $500, 460 euros) to transport the men.

Police have launched a manhunt for "the intermediary who facilitated the illegal entry of the Ethiopians into the country," Direito added.

Temperatures in Tete have been above 90 degrees Fahrenheit this week.

None of the men were carrying identification, and IOM is working to provide assistance to the survivors.

South Africa is home to more than 4 million migrants and close to 300,000 asylum seekers and refugees according to the latest U.N. statistics.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/africa/mozambique-migrants-found-dead-intl/index.html

Everything we know about the 39 victims found dead in shipping container

Families who fear their relatives are among the 39 found dead in a shipping container have submitted DNA samples to the authorities. Essex Police initially believed the victims to be Chinese nationals, but it has since been discovered as many as 25 of them could be Vietnamese. Several families have come forward say they believe their loved-ones were travelling to the UK inside the lorry. Most of them last spoke to the person on Monday or Tuesday this week, just hours before the container was found in a Grays industrial park, in Essex.

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/27/everything-know-39-victims-found-dead-shipping-container-10992095/

MIGRANT CRISIS Child and nine adults found inside shipping container at Hull port

A CHILD was among 10 suspected migrants from Africa who were found in a container at a Hull port, the Home Office said.

The group of seven men, two women and a child are believed to be Eritrean nationals who arrived at the King George Dock on Tuesday morning from Zeebrugge, on the Belgian coast.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11093411/child-nine-migrants-inside-shipping-container-hull-port/

35 people found trapped in shipping container at British port; 1 dead

British police reported finding 35 people trapped inside a shipping container at a port near London on Saturday, including a man who was pronounced dead at the scene. The others, believed to be from South Asia, were taken to a hospital for treatment.

The victims, who included women and children, were discovered at the Port of Tilbury on the River Thames east of London, about an hour after the ship carrying the container docked, according to a news release from the Essex Police.

https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-shipping-container-dead-20140816-story.html

15 Chinese Found in Cargo Container at Port of L.A.

LAT ARCHIVES

APRIL 11, 2000 12 AM PT

LONG BEACH — Fifteen Chinese nationals who crossed the Pacific Ocean inside a squalid shipping container were arrested Monday morning at a cargo terminal in the Port of Los Angeles, federal authorities reported.

Immigration and Naturalization Service officials said they found the group in a 40-foot cargo container from Hong Kong that had been unloaded from a freighter on Terminal Island.

Conditions were so unsanitary inside the sealed container that INS investigators had to wear hazardous materials gear, authorities said. The Chinese had lived inside the steel box for at least 18 days before customs agents tipped off the INS.

Monday’s arrest was the second of its type in three days. On Saturday, immigration officials discovered 15 Chinese inside a container at the Port of Long Beach.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-11-me-18290-story.html

>>13295964

Hi Phil, hope there are no skeletons in your closet cuz they are all about to become public.

I hear you like watching your wife take the BBC…

>>13296227

Those containers are not the same size as the one in the chinook pic. They are 40 feet long and up to 80k pounds. Not even an arial crane could lift one and there are hundreds.

S-64E SIKORSKY

SKYCRANE

Max lift 20k lbs.

http://www.sillerhelicopters.com/heavy-lift-helicopters/s-64e-sikorsky-skycrane/

>>13296230

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