每日电讯报: 偷渡客可能均来自越南河静省 曾遭台塑钢厂泄漏重创旅游和农渔业
Patrick Sawer 6park.com 6park.com 6park.com 26 OCTOBER 2019 • 10:11 AM 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com The families of as many as 20 Vietnamese migrants fear they were among those who perished in a refrigerator unit found at an industrial estate in Essex. 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com Dozens of distraught relatives have been in contact with Vietnamese community groups in Britain asking for information about their missing loved ones. 6park.com 6park.com There are growing fears the majority of the 39 who died inside the lorry came from the same poverty stricken rice-growing community as Ms Pham. 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com Father Anthony Dang Huu Nam, a catholic priest in the remote town of Yen Thanh, a two hour drive from Ms Pham’s home in northern-central Vietnam’s Nghe An province, said he was supporting family members of the victims. 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com “The whole district is covered in sorrow,” he said. “I’m still collecting contact details for all the victim’s families, and will hold a ceremony to pray for them tonight.” 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com “This is a catastrophe for our community.” 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com As he spoke prayers for the dead rang out over loudspeakers throughout the rain-soaked town. 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com Father Nam said families told him they knew relatives were travelling to the UK but had been unable to contact their loved ones. 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com Speaking about Ms Pham’s griefstriken family Father Nam said: “That girl who said in her message that she couldn’t breathe in the truck? Her parents can’t breathe here at home.” 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com Vietnam’s foreign ministry said it had instructed its London embassy to assist British police with the identification of victims. 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com Nghe An is one of Vietnam’s poorest provinces, and home to many victims of human trafficking who end up in Europe, according to a March report by the Pacific Links Foundation, a U.S.-based anti-trafficking organisation. 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com During the first eight months of this year, 41,790 people left Nghe Anb looking for work, many of them overseas. 6park.com
6park.com 6park.com The province was ravaged by one of Vietnam’s worst environmental disasters in 2016 when a steel mill owned by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics contaminated coastal waters, devastating local fishing and tourism industries and sparking widespread protests.
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