{"id":6681,"date":"2012-01-05T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/20-somali-migrants-suffocate-in-cramped-truck\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:17:09","slug":"20-somali-migrants-suffocate-in-cramped-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/20-somali-migrants-suffocate-in-cramped-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Somali migrants suffocate in cramped truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Dozens of Somalis were crammed in container<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Bodies dumped on the road<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Tanzania a transit route for human trafficking<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Twenty illegal Somali<br \/>\nmigrants suffocated to death as they were being smuggled in a<br \/>\ncramped container truck through Tanzania, their bodies dumped on<br \/>\nthe road, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bodies of the 17 men and three women were dumped at<br \/>\nvarious areas in the Morogoro region, some 200 km (125 miles)<br \/>\nwest of the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, regional police<br \/>\ncommander Adolphina Chialo said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They were found between Dec. 26 and Jan. 1, she added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tanzania serves as a transit route for human trafficking,<br \/>\nmostly of Somali and Ethiopian nationals, to South Africa and<br \/>\nEurope. Somalia has been engulfed in conflict for the past two<br \/>\ndecades, with hundreds of thousands fleeing the violence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on our preliminary investigations, the Somalis died<br \/>\nfrom lack of air and very hot conditions inside the metal,<br \/>\n20-square-foot (1.8 square-metre) container,&#8221; Chialo told<br \/>\nReuters by telephone.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The human traffickers dumped the bodies one by one after<br \/>\nthey had suffocated inside the container as the truck was<br \/>\nheading towards the border between Tanzania and Zambia,&#8221; she<br \/>\nsaid.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Dozens of Somalis were crammed in container * Bodies dumped on the road * Tanzania a transit route for human trafficking DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Twenty illegal Somali migrants suffocated to death as they were being smuggled in a cramped container truck through Tanzania, their bodies dumped on the road, police [&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-6681","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\/6681","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=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}