Driver arrested in connection with 39 lorry container deaths named as 25-year-old Armagh man

• 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 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 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