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Lynn Love

Man and woman arrested over 39 bodies found in lorry

Two more people have been arrested after 39 suspected Chinese migrants were found dead in a lorry in Essex.

The driver of the truck, named locally as 25-year-old Mo Robinson, from Northern Ireland, remains in custody after he was held on suspicion of murder.

Essex Police said on Friday that a man and a woman, both aged 38 and from Warrington, Cheshire, were arrested on suspicion of 39 counts of manslaughter and people trafficking.

The lorry where 39 bodies were found being removed from an industrial park in Essex (PA)

An international investigation is under way as post-mortem examinations are due to begin on the bodies found in a refrigerated trailer in Grays in the early hours of Wednesday.

The lorry found at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, contained 39 bodies (SWNS.com)

On Thursday evening, the first 11 bodies were moved by a private ambulance with a police escort from the port of Tilbury to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.

 
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