Post mortems show refugees died of suffocation

The post mortem results on the eight asylum seekers who died in a container in Co Wexford last week have shown that they died of suffocation after their oxygen supply expired.

The post mortem results on the eight asylum seekers who died in a container in Co Wexford last week have shown that they died of suffocation after their oxygen supply expired.

The dead, most of whom were Turkish, included three young children and a teenager.

Among the victims were a mother and two of her children and a father and two of his children.

They had apparently paid a gang of traffickers to seal them into the container so they could start a new life, free of oppression, in Britain.

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