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Agence France-Presse

One of the 39 Vietnamese victims found dead in a refrigerated truck in Britain last month is a minor who disappeared from a Dutch asylum shelter previously, a newspaper report said on Saturday.
The boy, whose name and age was not released, was among the bodies found near the southeast English port of Purfleet on October 23, the Algemeen Dagblad daily reported.
“The teenage boy absconded from an extra-secure facility for vulnerable asylum seekers,” the paper said, quoting a source at the COA, the Dutch government organisation handling refugees.
The COA declined to give the victim’s name, but the newspaper said investigations showed the teen went missing from an asylum seeker’s centre in southern Limburg province.
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Six Vietnamese teens also disappeared from the centre in August, sparking a massive police search involving helicopters, the paper said.
However, the COA declined to link the disappearance of the six teens to the dead victim in Britain.




The bodies of eight women and 31 men were found in a trailer on an industrial estate east of London, with one of the youngest a 15-year-old boy named Nguyen Huy Hung.
The truck had earlier arrived on a cargo ferry from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
Hundreds of migrants try to enter Britain annually through the world’s busiest waterway using unsafe boats.
The role human traffickers play in such operations came under new scrutiny after the Vietnamese tragedy.
Grieving Vietnamese struggle to pay to recover dead family from UK
British detectives investigating the case on Friday made another arrest, detaining a 23-year-old man from Northern Ireland on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.
Northern Irish truck driver Mo Robinson, 25, has already appeared in court in connection with the case, while another man from Northern Irish, Eamonn Harrison, 22, is facing extradition proceedings in Ireland.


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Teen Vietnamese UK truck victim had escaped from Dutch migrant centre

Candles are lit during a prayer for 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London, in Hanoi. Photo: Reuters

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Police at the scene where 39 bodies were discovered in a lorry container, in Essex, Britain. Photo: Reuters

epa07946455 People hold a candlelight vigil for the victims that died in a lorry container, in London, Britain, 24 October 2019. A total of 39 bodies were discovered inside a lorry container in Grays, Essex in the early hours of 23 October, and pronounced dead at the scene. EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN

epa07402965 A handout photo made available by the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) on 28 February 2019 shows a GPO officer holding a marijuana seedling inside a greenhouse during the opening ceremony of the first indoor cannabis farm in Thailand, at GPO facilities in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, 27 February 2019 (issued 28 February). The GPO is to open the first legal marijuana farm which is producing the first legal crop of the plant out of the ASEAN countries. Thailand is intending to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. EPA-EFE/GPO / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

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Nguyen Dinh Gia (right), father of Nguyen Dinh Luong, one of the suspected truck death victims, is embraced by a friend at his home in Ha Tinh province, Vietnam, on Sunday. Photo: Reuters

Hoang Lanh, father of 18-year old Hoang Van Tiep who is feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain, looks at his son's photograph on his phone at their house in Dien Thinh commune of Vietnam's Nghe An province on October 28, 2019. - Vietnamese officials collected DNA samples on October 27 from relatives of those feared among 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain, a security source and a family member told AFP, as villagers held emotional prayers for the victims. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

A handout photo made available by Essex Police in London on October 29, 2019, shows Christopher Hughes (L) and his brother Ronan Hughes, who are being sought in connection with the discovery of the 39 Vietnamese bodies found in a truck in Grays on October 23. - British police probing the deaths of 39 people in a truck said Tuesday they want to question two Northern Irish brothers on suspicion of manslaughter and human trafficking. Essex Police, which is investigating last week's disaster, said they wanted to speak to Ronan Hughes, 40, and his 34-year-old brother Christopher, who are both from Armagh. Eight women and 31 men were found Wednesday in a refrigeration truck trailer that entered Britain on a ferry from Belgium. Several Vietnamese families fear their relatives are among the dead. (Photo by HO / Essex Police / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / ESSEX POLICE " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Tran Thi Hien (C), mother of Bui Thi Nhung, who is feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain, is consoled inside her house in Vietnam's Nghe An province on October 26, 2019. - A photo of her missing daughter Bui Thi Nhung, an offering of fruit and a bouquet of flowers -- a makeshift shrine laid by a desperate mother in a remote Vietnamese town many fear was home to some of the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain. More than 20 Vietnamese are feared to be among the bodies found in a refrigerated trailer in an industrial park in Essex east of London on October 23. (Photo by NHAC NGUYEN / AFP)

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The teenage boy was among the 39 bodies found in a refrigerated truck in Britain last month, a newspaper report said
Detectives investigating the case on Friday made another arrest, detaining a man on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people



The teenage boy was among the 39 bodies found in a refrigerated truck in Britain last month, a newspaper report said.


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Teen Vietnamese UK truck victim had escaped from Dutch migrant centre

The teenage boy was among the 39 bodies found in a refrigerated truck in Britain last month, a newspaper report said Detectives investigating the case on Friday made another arrest, detaining a man on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people

The teenage boy was among the 39 bodies found in a refrigerated truck in Britain last month, a newspaper report said

Detectives investigating the case on Friday made another arrest, detaining a man on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people