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©Mark Henley/Panos Pictures..CHINA Fujian, Chengle June 2000..Contrast between an old one-storey farm house and a new luxury five storey house built with money sent home by a successful illegal immigrant to Europe, in the county where the migrants found dead in a container in Dover came from. .On the 18th June Dover customs officers found the bodies of 58 Chinese migrants, who had suffocated during the five-hour crossing from the Netherlands, in the back of a truck. They had paid a criminal 'snakehead' gang £20,000 each to smuggle them into Britain.
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