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Cargo - USA - 22 held in human smuggling attempt
SEATTLE,Wash,USA -cnews.canoe.ca. by TIM KLASS/AP -6 Apr 2006: -- Twenty-two Chinese nationals were in custody Wednesday after they apparently let themselves out of a 12-metre cargo container that had been used to smuggle them from China, officials said... The shipping container, the second from the bottom in a stack of four, had been flagged for a special examination, but that had not been conducted before the group was caught, Milne said... It had been loaded on the ship in Shanghai and had water bottles, food, blankets and toilet facilities... It was believed to be the first detection of a human smuggling attempt via cargo container in Seattle since a flurry along the U.S. and Canadian West Coast in 2000 and 2001. Almost all of those caught were deported. Three found in a shipping container had died before reaching Seattle in January 2000... (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection - The interior of a 40-foot cargo container used to transport 22 Chinese nationals believed to be part of a human smuggling operation)
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