U.K. police say 39 bodies found in truck container believed to be Chinese – The Washington Post

Lucy Moreton of the Immigration Services Union, which represents British border, customs and immigration officers, said that desperate attempts to reach Britain appeared to be on the rise. She described a form of modern-day slavery in which Chinese, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese and others allow themselves to be shipped to Britain, where they toiled for years in construction, domestic service, agriculture, nail salons and the sex trade to “pay back” the debt they owed gangs for smuggling them abroad. 

U.K. police say 39 bodies found in truck container believed to be Chinese – The Washington Post