Dozens of Burma migrants killed
9/4/08
At least 54 migrant workers from Myanmar - most of them women - have suffocated to death in the back of a truck in southern Thailand. They were among 121 people being smuggled inside the freezer truck used to transport seafood late on Wednesday to the Thai resort island of Phuket to work as labourers, police Colonel Kraithong Chanthongbai said. Of the dead, 37 were women and 17 were men. Police say the driver failed to turn on the air-conditioning in the back of the truck. He stopped driving when he heard people banging on the walls and fled after opening the door to the container and seeing the bodies.
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