CAN LOC – The Vietnam police took hair and blood samples on Sunday to get the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from relatives of people feared to be among the 39 who died in a truck near London last week, their family members said.
Nguyen Dinh Gia said he feared there was very little chance he would ever again see his 20-year-old son, Nguyen Dinh Luong, who had been trying to get to Britain after first making it to France.
The bodies were found on Wednesday in a truck container in Grays, east of central London.
Police in Britain said on Saturday they had charged one man, 25-year-old Maurice Robinson of Craigavon in Northern Ireland, with 39 counts of manslaughter and other offences including conspiracy to traffic people.
Initially, British police believed the victims were Chinese, but later sought help from the Vietnamese community.(Reuters)
