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Authorities Arrest 2 More in UK's Gruesome Truck Deaths Case

Associated Press

   LONDON - British police arrested two more people Friday in connection
   with the deaths of 39 others found in the back of a container truck in
   southeastern England as the investigation into one of the country's
   worst human smuggling cases geared up.

   Police said the man and the woman, both 38 and from Warrington, a town
   in northwestern England, were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and
   conspiracy to traffic people. The 25-year-old driver of the truck
   remains in custody on suspicion of murder.
   The new arrests came as police began the grim process of conducting
   post-mortem examinations of the dead. The remains of 11 people from the
   truck were transported by ambulance from the Port of Tilbury under
   police escort Thursday.

   Essex Police said 31 men and eight women were found dead in the truck
   early Wednesday at an industrial park in Grays, a town 25 miles (40
   kilometers) east of London.

   Although U.K. police said they believed the dead were Chinese citizens,
   Chinese officials told reporters in Beijing that the nationalities and
   identities of the victims had not yet been confirmed.

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