{"id":11902,"date":"2012-06-28T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/dead-migrants-dumped-by-roadside-in-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2012-06-28T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:00:13","slug":"dead-migrants-dumped-by-roadside-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/dead-migrants-dumped-by-roadside-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead migrants dumped by roadside in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Motorists shocked by piles of bodies near highway<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Thought to be Ethiopians migrants who suffocated<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Second such incident this year<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DAR ES SALAAM, June 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Dozens of dead Ethiopian<br \/>\nimmigrants were dumped on the side of a road in Tanzania after<br \/>\nsuffocating in a container truck along with many others who<br \/>\nsurvived, in the second fatal human trafficking incident in the<br \/>\ncountry this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Up to 45 bodies were dumped along a busy forest highway, the<br \/>\nlocal Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday, and a further 72<br \/>\nwere found alive and taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the driver discovered that there were people dying, he<br \/>\ndecided to throw them in the forest and run away with his<br \/>\nvehicle,&#8221; the paper quoted Deputy Home Affairs Minister Pereira<br \/>\nAme Silima as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police in the in the central region of Dodoma, where the<br \/>\nbodies were found on Tuesday, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen anything like this &#8230; There were so many<br \/>\nbodies lined up along the road. People in passing vehicles were<br \/>\nshocked at the sight,&#8221; said local resident Fatuma Amir.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The east African country is a major transit route for<br \/>\nmigrants, used by smugglers to ferry Somalis and Ethiopians to<br \/>\nSouth Africa and Europe.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Motorists shocked by piles of bodies near highway * Thought to be Ethiopians migrants who suffocated * Second such incident this year DAR ES SALAAM, June 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Dozens of dead Ethiopian immigrants were dumped on the side of a road in Tanzania after suffocating in a container truck along with many others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}