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London’s Vietnamese community has gathered at a vigil and a service to honour the 39 Vietnamese victims who died in a refrigerated truck container in southeastern England.
The community is mourning the unidentified victims, who were trying to enter Britain in hopes of finding greater opportunity. They were discovered dead on October 23 at an industrial estate in the town of Grays.

Reverend Simon Nguyen offered prayers for the victims and for their loved ones in Vietnam.
“We show our condolences and sympathies for the people who have lost their lives on the way seeking freedom, dignity and happiness,” he said, going on to pray for those who lost their “sons and daughters” in the tragedy.

A Saturday night vigil was followed by a Sunday service at the Church of the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in East London.
Authorities charged with the grim task of trying to identify the remains are working with officials in Vietnam to try to get information about people who have been reported missing by their families and are thought to have been in transit to England.
The 31 men and eight women are believed to have paid people traffickers for their clandestine transit into England. Police have not provided details about the scheme.

British police have charged 25-year-old Maurice Robinson, from Northern Ireland, with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people. They say he drove the cab of the truck to Purfleet, England, where it picked up the container, which had arrived by ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.
In Ireland, 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison was arrested on Friday on a British warrant. Essex Police in Britain said they had started extradition proceedings to bring him to the UK to face charges of manslaughter.
Two men in Vietnam have also been arrested and are suspected of helping organise the smuggling operation.


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Vigil held in UK for 39 Vietnamese who died in a truck

A vigil is held at the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, a Vietnamese church in East London. Photo: AP

02 November 2019, England, London: Candles designed as part of the Mass Prayer Ceremony and the vigil for the 39 victims found dead inside the back of a truck in Grays, at The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, London's Vietnamese church. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire/dpa

02 November 2019, England, London: The priest of the Vietnamese Catholic Cathedral Father Simon Thang Duc Nguyen takes part in the mass prayer and vigil for 39 victims found dead inside the back of a truck in Grays, at The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, London's Vietnamese church. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire/dpa

TOPSHOT - British Police officers stand on duty at a cordon near to where a lorry, believed to have originated from Bulgaria, and containing 39 dead bodies, was discovered at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London, on October 23, 2019. - British police said 39 bodies were found near London Wednesday in the container of a truck thought to have come from Bulgaria. Essex Police said the people were all pronounced dead at the scene in an industrial park in Grays, east of London. Early indications suggest the victims are 38 adults and one teenager. A 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been arrested on suspicion of murder. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP)

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Police officers drive away a truck in which 39 bodies were discovered in Britain. Photo: AFP

Ronan Hughes (R) and his brother Christopher Hughes. Photo: AP/Essex police

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A portrait of Bui Thi Nhung, who is feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain, is kept on a prayer altar at her house in Vietnam's Nghe An province on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Candles are lit during a prayer for 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London, in front of Hanoi Cathedral in Hanoi, Vietnam October 27, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer NO RESALES NO ARCHIVES

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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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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

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The community is mourning the unidentified victims, who were trying to enter Britain in hopes of a better life. They were discovered dead last month



The community is mourning the unidentified victims, who were trying to enter Britain in hopes of a better life. They were discovered dead on October 23.


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Vigil held in UK for 39 Vietnamese who died in a truck

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The community is mourning the unidentified victims, who were trying to enter Britain in hopes of a better life. They were discovered dead last month