Process to identify 39 people found dead in lorry container under way; Driver (25) from Armagh arrested
- The truck in which 39 people were found dead in Essex in the UK is now thought to have arrived in the country from Zeebrugge, in Belgium, and is understood not to have travelled through the Republic of Ireland.
- The lorry driver - a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland - has been arrested in connection with the investigation, and is police custody. He has been named in reports as Mo Robinson from Portadown in Co Armagh.
- The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Scania lorry was registered in Varna, a city on the east coast of the country, under the name of a company owned by an Irish citizen.
- The tractor unit of the lorry is believed to have originated in Northern Ireland.
- Ambulance staff found all 39 victims, including a teenager, dead inside the container. The other 38 victims were all adults.
- The process to identify the 39 people is under way.
- A road haulage expert said the lorry container appeared to be a refrigerated unit, with temperatures inside able to drop as low as -25C.
