4 Stowaways Found Dead in Container
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A customs official found the bodies of four stowaways Tuesday inside a shipping container in the port city of Livorno on Italy’s Tuscan coast, a police spokesman said.
Police were investigating the cause of death and trying to identify the four men, the spokesman said. Italian news reports said the bodies were found in a container of floor tiles bound for Canada.
The news reports said the stowaways were Romanian, but police did not confirm their nationality.
Last week, an Irish trucker found the bodies of eight refugees, most of them from Turkey, along with five survivors in a shipping container that had traveled to Ireland through Italy, Germany and Belgium.
An autopsy report released Tuesday in Dublin, the Irish capital, said the cause of death for the eight refugees was suffocation.
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