Hoping for a better life, here are the faces of the 39 people who are believed to have frozen to death in the back of a truck after a desperate attempt to reach Britain.

The victims were discovered naked, or with minimal clothing, and had been desperately 'banging on the doors' for help and had 'foam coming from their mouths'.

The bodies of eight women and 31 men could have been frozen in the truck for several days when they were discovered on Wednesday.

It is now thought that as many as 25 of the 39 victims are Vietnamese and from the same impoverished coastal region of Yen Than.



Moment family heard from a friend living in the UK that 'Nhung is one of the victims,'

Anna Bui Thi Nhung, 19, from Vietnam paid an agent over $10,000 with the hope of entering the U.K. to work as a nail technician, according to a relative.

A relative looks at an image of Nhung.

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Pham Thi Tra My, 26, sent her mother a series of harrowing messages telling her she 'loved her' and was 'dying because she couldn't breathe' in the moments before her death, her family have claimed.


In text messages sent at 10.28pm GMT on Tuesday, Pham Thi Tra told her mother, 'I cant breathe here, I love you so much...I'm sorry.' Pictured, The screenshot of Tra My's last text.

Pham Van Thin (right) and Nguyen Thi Phong (left), father and mother of Tra My. They told CNN it was 'very painful' to receive the text saying she must have known she was going to die when she sent it.

Gory!!! How can some one use $10k to meet her own death!!
This is so sad,
Looking at those parents you can tell that no one deserves this type of fate!!
God rest their souls

Nguyen Dinh Luong, man from an impoverished Vietnamese province with dreams of a better life in Britain.

A portrait of Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, is kept on a prayer altar inside his home in Can Loc district, Ha Tinh Province

Father-of-two Vo Ngoc Nam, 28, is also feared to have been in the ill-fated container.

It's very unfortunate. RIP to them.

Cousins Hung Nguyen, 33, and Hoang Van Tiep were both feared to be in the container.

Anna's elder sister Bui Thi Loan (right) said they wanted her body repatriated so she could be buried in the village that she had left in search of a better life.

Anna's family sat smoking and drinking tea as a procession of visitors called to pay their respects at a makeshift shrine

The custom a small shrine bearing fruit and flowers surrounding a photograph of Dinh Yu had been set up in a front room of the house.

Hoping for a better life.

Rip to them
I still dont undestand why they did not migrate legally.

Police yesterday seized cars belonging to an Irish haulage boss and his wife who are being quizzed by detectives over the deaths of 39 migrants.

The vehicles a white Chevrolet Corvette, grey Range Rover Sport and Discovery Sport with personalised number plates, and a Kawasaki motor bike are owned by Thomas and Joanna Maher, both 38.

The couple were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people after a dramatic early morning raid on their £400,000 home in Warrington, Cheshire on Friday.

Bodies of the 39 dead migrants are being moved one-by-one by private ambulance from Tilbury docks to Chelmsford mortuary for post-mortem examinations.


This harrowing image shows a fleet of private ambulances arriving at Tilbury Docks to take away the victims.

1000 staff to be hired.


People trafficking and smuggling gangs are targeting ports along England's east coast with perceived weaker security to sneak migrants into Britain, it is feared.

Home Office said it is now in the process of hiring 1,000 more staff to 'help maintain security' at borders. In the last year, 900 officers were hired.

The data comes after 39 migrants were found dead in a lorry on Wednesday in the Essex town of Grays, near Purfleet, the port where the container entered the UK.

Nor be only Nigerians dry run comont for their country.

May their soul rest in peace and God grant the families the strength to withstand this tragic moment.

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May their soul rest in peace and God grant the families the strength to withstand this tragic moment.

Amen

How do they smuggle them through customs after they land in Europe?

Sad sad

Sad!! It’s crazy how some one would pay $10k just to meet with their death, I really feel for their parents! No parent deserves to be meet with such fate!!
They all died hard all in the quest of looking for a greener pasture

Very sad situation. May their souls rest in peace.

Sad case.

Hope Nigerians are seeing how things are done. If it was here, you will be seeing pictures of the dead bodies splashed online everywhere.

Am just in tears

Life itself is a big scam

We humans are in big trouble

Just imagine

" I can't breathe"

God should be asking us first if we want to come to this scam called " life"

hmm

...and she fine see sweet puna wey man for they enjoy...

Anyway thank God they weren't Africans this time.

Ok

But why through frozen van

When I heard this news some days back, I almost cried especially the Vietnamese lady who sent text message to her mom . " My trip to a foreign land has failed me, I can't breath mother"- she wrote.

I felt it to my bone like it was someone I knew.

May their souls rest in peace.

Chai....