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France to try 19 men over 2019 deaths of migrants trapped in lorry

Ground personnel from Noi Bai International Airport carry a casket containing the remains of one of the Vietnamese victims to an ambulance in Hanoi on November 27, 2019. AFP - -

France is to try 19 people over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants three and a half years after the grim discovery of their bodies in the back of a refrigerated lorry in England.

The victims, the youngest of whom were two 15-year-old boys, suffocated in the sealed container as they were being transported across the Channel.

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