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Sunday, October 27, 2019

Essex lorry deaths: Vietnamese families fear for missing loved ones

Relatives in Nghe An province, where 35 of the 39 dead are believed to be from, await worst news of all The last time that Le Minh Tuan spoke to his son Le Van Ha, it was in a brief phonecall. “I have made it to France,” Ha told his father on Monday, “and I am about to get in a car to England.” It had been a long journey for Ha since he left his small farming community of Yen Hoi, in Vietnam’s Nghe An province, in July, in search of better prospects. He had flown first to Ho Chi Minh City, then travelled to Malaysia, then Turkey, then Greece and finally to France. Continue reading...


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