Immigrants' bodies flown home

London - The bodies of 58 Chinese immigrants who suffocated in a tomato lorry in Dover last June were flown home yesterday under…

London - The bodies of 58 Chinese immigrants who suffocated in a tomato lorry in Dover last June were flown home yesterday under intense security.

Police ringed the airport as an aircraft that flew the coffins from London landed in Fuzhou, a migrant-smuggling centre on China's south-eastern coast.

By yesterday most of the bodies had been cremated or buried without funerals. A mortuary employee in Changle, where an unknown number were cremated, said families were waiting in the street to receive the ashes.

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