Updated October 26th, 2019 at 13:48 IST

More Vietnamese fear relatives are among 39 dead in truck

1 of 6 Police leave the home of Joanna and Thomas Maher with an evidence box at Wiltshire close in Warrington, Cheshire, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019.

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1 of 6 Police leave the home of Joanna and Thomas Maher with an evidence box at Wiltshire close in Warrington, Cheshire, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, after a man and a woman, both aged 38 and from Warrington, have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people in connection with the 39 bodies found in a lorry in Essex on Wednesday. More Vietnamese families are coming forward with information their relatives may be among the 39 people found dead in the back of a container truck in southeastern England.

British police initially said they believed the victims were Chinese but acknowledged this was a “developing picture.”Police on Friday arrested three people on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people. The 25-year-old driver of the truck remains in custody on suspicion of murder in Vietnam, the father of 20-year-old Nguyen Dình Luong feared his son was among the dead. He told The Associated Press he had not been able to reach him since last week when he told his father he would join a group in Paris that was trying to reach England.

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Published October 26th, 2019 at 13:47 IST