The people hiding in the container may have banged violently on the door with the desire to escape, leaving blood fingerprints, according to unnamed sources.
"When opening the container door, the emergency response staff was shocked to see dozens of bodies piled up. The people closest to the door were frothy and were in the early stages of cramping of the corpses. dies when the joints become stiff and hard to move. The spasticity in a person takes 3-4 hours and peaks after 12 hours and gradually decreases after 24 hours from the time of death) ", The source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"Blood was detected around some bodies and on the floor of containers. The victims may have hurt themselves and others in a desperate attempt to escape. There are blood fingerprints along the wings." The door, they probably banged here to ask for help. The victims wore little clothes, some were naked, "the source added. Police and medical personnel at the scene said that apart from the victims, there were no goods in the conntainer.
The source said that the early-stage corpses showed that most of the victims had died when Northern Ireland driver Mo Robinson received the container at Purfleet port at 1h05 on October 23. Previously, the container was taken from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge by the Clementine ferry at 15:00 on October 22. She docked at Purfleet port in England at 0:30 am on 23/10.
Robinson discovered 39 people had died when opening a container door in Waterglade Industrial Park, Essex on the morning of October 23, so they informed the authorities. British police arrested Robinson and three suspects on charges of manslaughter and human trafficking.
The Essex County Police initially believed that the victims, including 31 men and 8 women, were Chinese, but authorities were investigating whether the victims were of a different nationality.
A Vietnamese citizen, Mr. Pham Van Thin, sent an application to the People's Committee of Nghen, Can Loc and Ha Tinh towns today, saying that it is likely that Pham Thi Tra My's daughter "was one of 39 victims in a container truck". Family members said that before going missing, Tra My sent a text to Mom with the content "I die because I cannot breathe".