With tears in their eyes and white roses in their hands, friends and relatives of the 39 Vietnamese people who were found dead in the back of a British-truck last-month sobbed as the first-bodies to be repatriated arrived in rural Vietnam. The bodies of 16-victims arrived in the Southeast Asian country in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Vietnam's foreign-ministry said in a statement.

Twelve migrants 11 Syrians and a Sudanese, all men have been found alive in a refrigerated truck in Belgium transporting fruit and vegetables, police said Wednesday. The discovery came as British police investigate the deaths of 39 people whose bodies were found a week ago in another refrigerated truck parked east of London. Migrants and people-smugglers often use Belgium to try to reach Britain.