Czech police find 30 migrants in truck, 1 dead

Czech Police on Monday found a truck carrying about 30 migrants on a highway, and one of them was dead, reported Xinhua.

The police said on social media platform X that they stopped the truck on the D8 motorway near Veltrusy, north of Prague, after 8:00 p.m. local time (1800 GMT), and detained the migrants aboard.

"Everything points to the fact that these are transit migrants, and unfortunately the initial information from the scene shows one person is dead," the police said, without revealing more details.

After finding the migrants in a semi-trailer, the police closed the highway and used a helicopter to search for those who might have tried to escape.

Local media said the health condition of the migrants was bad. Their nationalities are not yet known.