Voice of America reports that the International Organization for Migration has found that 19 Ethiopian migrants suffocated to death earlier this month along Zambia‘s border with Congo inside a container truck, where survivors inside banged on the sides until border officials opened it.
The International Organization for Migration reports the deaths occurred as the victims were being transported by a suspected trafficking syndicate in Chembe district in Luapula Province of Zambia. It says they were crammed into the truck, which was carrying bags of beans and groundnuts.
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