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French officials find 21 migrants hiding in refrigerated truck
Strasbourg, France, April 16 (AFP) Apr 16, 2019
Officials in France have found 21 migrants from Iran and Iraq hiding in a refrigerated truck driving in the east of the country, regional authorities said Tuesday.

The 10 men, six women and five children were taken in for treatment by medical services, the authorities in the Meuse region said, confirming a report first given by the local newspaper l'Est Republicain.

Some of the migrants had previously been given police orders to leave French territory. Such notifications are often issued when asylum applications are rejected, either because conditions were not met or because the migrants entered the European Union via another country that is responsible for determining their status.

The discovery of the migrants in the truck carried uncomfortable echoes of a more tragic incident, in August 2017, in which 71 migrants died of suffocation in the back of a refrigerated truck in Hungary. That vehicle was found abandoned on a highway in neighbouring Austria and four people-smugglers -- an Afghan and three Bulgarians -- were convicted and jailed.


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