UK: Suspect charged over migrant truck deaths
01 December 2019 |
2:21 pm
British prosecutors have charged a 23-year-old man over the deaths of 39 people from Vietnam in a refrigeration truck. The case has highlighted the dangers of illegal migration to Britain.
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