ITALY: THE BODIES OF SIX ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BELIEVED TO HAVE SUFFOCATED TO DEATH IN A TRUCK FOUND DUMPED ON THE ROAD SIDE

Record ID: 348904

  • Title: ITALY: THE BODIES OF SIX ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BELIEVED TO HAVE SUFFOCATED TO DEATH IN A TRUCK FOUND DUMPED ON THE ROAD SIDE
  • Date: 18th October 2000
  • Summary: FOGGIA, ITALY (OCTOBER 18, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN POLICE ON ROADSIDE WHERE BODIES WERE FOUND 0.10 2. SV PULL OUT LV BODIES ON ROADSIDE WITH POLICE TEAMS IN WHITE SUITS INVESTIGATING 0.20 3. SLV BODIES ON ROADSIDE SURROUNDED BY RUBBISH 0.25 4. SLV/SV POLICE INVESTIGATORS ON SCENE (2 SHOTS) 0.37 5. MCU MAGISTRATE
  • Embargoed: 2nd November 2000 12:00
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  • Location: FOGGIA, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVABF8BX4HDB8ZD3CR0N06ZID1RO
  • Story Text: The bodies of six illegal immigrants believed to have
    suffocated to death in a truck have been found dumped on the
    side of a road in southern Italy.



    A senior police official in Foggia on Wednesday
    (October 18) said the six bodies, believed to be Kurds, were
    found surrounded by rubbish on a highway access road on the
    outskirts of the city in the southern Puglia region.

    The grim episode was reminiscent of one in Britain last
    June in which the bodies of 58 Chinese immigrants who
    suffocated to death were found in the back of a truck in
    Dover,
    From the look of their bodies and discoloration of their
    skin, the preliminary hypothesis is that they suffocated to
    death in a vehicle and were then discarded, the police
    official
    told Reuters by telephone.

    The bodies also had wounds that apparently resulted from
    having been thrown out of a moving vehicle, he said. One man
    had had his head smashed, possibly crushed by the truck as it
    sped away or by another vehicle.

    Investigators said one of the men was carrying a Greek
    residence permit and that their search was now centred on
    trucks which had arrived recently in the port cities of Bari
    and Brindisi from Greece.

    Police, who found flecks of cotton on the ground near the
    bodies, said they would check trucks that carried raw cotton
    into Italy. Tracks on the ground suggested the truck had a
    trailer.

    Magistrates have launched an investigation into possible
    charges of multiple manslaughter.

    Two men have been charged with manslaughter for their
    alleged part in the case of the suffocated Chinese found in
    Britain last June.


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