(AFP) Bulgarian authorities on Friday found the bodies of 18 people who suffocated in a truck smuggling them through the country.
Bulgaria’s deadliest such incident comes as the Balkan nation struggles with an increase in illicit border crossings.
The truck was transporting 52 migrants “hidden under some wood,” officials said.
Locals alerted the police, who found the truck near the village of Lokorsko, 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of the capital Sofia.
Investigators discovered a gruesome scene with bodies scattered on the grass around the vehicle.
