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07-30-2008, 08:20 AM #1
13 illegal immigrants dead in Istanbul
13 illegal immigrants dead in Istanbul: police
Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:07am EDT
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Thirteen illegal immigrants, found dead in a field on the outskirts of Istanbul on Wednesday, suffocated in a packed truck, Turkish police said.
The truck was carrying 138 illegal immigrants through Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, local official Dogan Azat told the state-run news agency Anatolian.
The bodies were dumped in a field on the outskirts of the European part of the city, Azat said in Istanbul's Kucukcekmece district.
Turkey is a major trafficking route for illegal immigrants trying to enter the European Union from southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. They are often transported in overcrowded vehicles.
Television images showed a hilly rock-strewn area cordoned off by police near a narrow two-lane road. Security officials were carrying large bundles into a forensics vehicle.
"Our investigations are continuing," a police officer, who declined to be named, told Reuters.
Media reports said the majority of the dead were Pakistani, but no other details were immediately available.
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