Saw this a few hours ago when they still don't have much details yet. At first my first suspicion was these are Arab or African aliens trying to get in before Brexit. Was quite surprised to find out they were Chinese.
Likely there's a trafficking syndicate behind this. We already know how tight the Chinese are when it comes to travel and it's said they've already started monitoring their citizens going abroad due to bad reputation Chinese tourists have acquired. There's a possibility the syndicate bribed an official. We already see this happening in Southeast Asia though we haven't heard of the people dying like this.
Such incident nothing new though. What can be the possible reason behind it?
Not new? So I presume this kind of case often happens on that particular country? That's quite alarming to be honest. Anyway, the other motive I think is they will also be used as sex slaves which is not impossible because they surely get all the services what these poor people could offer. And about on the cause of their death, it might be suffocation due to congested space or lack of air ventillation.
It was a freezer truck so the cold definitely helped do them in.