IN BRIEF: Further arrests over refugee deaths

Thursday 20 July 1995 23:02 BST
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Further arrests over refugee deaths

Sofia - Police have arrested three more suspects in the smuggling of 18 Sri Lankan refugees who were found dead in a Bulgarian truck, officials said. Five people now were under arrest, including the truck owner and a businessman who allegedly hired the truck. Hungarian police last Saturday found the Sri Lankans sealed in the truck, which bore Bulgarian license plates. It had been abandoned at a parking lot in western Hungary. A

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