{"id":21686,"date":"2019-10-23T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=21686"},"modified":"2019-10-23T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:57:59","slug":"39-people-found-dead-in-truck-container-in-southeast-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=21686","title":{"rendered":"39 people found dead in truck container in southeast England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Nick Bailey and Alexander Smith<\/strong><br \/><br \/> LONDON \u2014 British police have launched a murder investigation after the bodies of 39 people were found in a truck container outside of London.<br \/><br \/> The truck was discovered at an industrial park in the early hours of Wednesday morning local time, and all 39 people inside were found dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/191023-essex-truck-mc-1102_ff55355d21fdf7aab1e03d850dd80705.fit-560w.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21687\"\/><figcaption>A Police forensic investigation team are parked near the site where 39 bodies were discovered in the back of a lorry on Oct. 23, 2019 in Thurrock, England.Leon Neal \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver, a 25-year old-man from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.<br \/><br \/> Police believe the vehicle came from Bulgaria and entered the U.K. on Saturday. One of the victims was a teenager and all the rest were adults, they said.<br \/><br \/> The truck was found at Waterglade Industrial Park in the town of Grays in the county of Essex, around 15 miles east of central London.<br \/><br \/> At a news conference Wednesday, Deputy Chief Constable Pippa Mills of Essex police called it a &#8220;tragic discovery&#8221; and said &#8220;the identification of the victims remains our number-one priority.&#8221;<br \/><br \/> &#8220;This is an absolute tragedy and a very sad day for Essex Police in the local community,&#8221; the detective chief constable said. &#8220;We will continue to work alongside many other partner agencies to find out what led to these deaths. I&#8217;d like to appeal for anyone who has any information to contact my offices.&#8221;<br \/><br \/> Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that he was &#8220;appalled by this tragic incident,&#8221; adding that the government would work with police to establish what happened. Priti Patel, the U.K.&#8217;s interior minister, tweeted that she was &#8220;shocked and saddened by this utterly tragic incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>www.nbc.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Bailey and Alexander Smith LONDON \u2014 British police have launched a murder investigation after the bodies of 39 people were found in a truck container outside of London. The truck was discovered at an industrial park in the early hours of Wednesday morning local time, and all 39 people inside were found dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}