Essex lorry deaths: Police question four arrestees
GBnews24desk//
A total of four people have been arrested by police over the suspicion of the deaths of 39 people whose bodies were found inside a lorry in Essex.
A man was detained at Stansted Airport on Friday on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.
Two people from Warrington were also held on the same charges, while the lorry driver has been held on suspicion of murder since Wednesday.
The arrests came as efforts to remove and identify those who died continued.
Police officers have been seen at the home address of the arrested couple, a man and a woman, who are both 38. The man arrested at Stansted Airport is aged 48 and is from Northern Ireland. Police have been given extra time to question the 25-year-old lorry driver, Mo Robinson, of County Armagh.
The bodies of eight women and a total of 31 men were found in the refrigeration trailer at an industrial park in Grays.
The trailer arrived in Purfleet on the River Thames from Zeebrugge in Belgium at 00:30 BST on Wednesday.
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