18 migrants who died in lorry in Bulgaria repatriated to Afghanistan

Afghan families receive bodies of their relatives who died while being smuggled into Bulgaria,(Afghanistan Foreign Ministry via AP)

The bodies of 18 migrants who died while being smuggled into Bulgaria have been returned to Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.

Bulgarian authorities discovered the bodies in a secret compartment below a load of lumber in the back of a truck left on a highway not far from the capital, Sofia, in February.