FILE PHOTO: A brother and a sister of John Nguyen Van Hung, a victim who was found dead in the back of a British truck last month, touch his coffin during a funeral Mass at a cemetary in Nghe An province, Vietnam, November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kham
HANOI (Reuters) - The remains of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck near London last month have been brought to Vietnam, bringing to a close a tragic saga that has devastated rural communities in the Southeast Asian country.
The remains of 23 victims arrived at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi early on Saturday, a local government official said. Seven of the bodies were cremated in Britain before being repatriated, the official Vietnam News Agency said.
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