Spanish police investigate suspected human trafficking route
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BARCELONA, Spain — Police in eastern Spain opened an investigation into a suspected human trafficking route after discovering two trucks carrying Iraqi refugees in less than a month.
A civil guard spokeswoman told The Associated Press Sunday that an anonymous tip led officers to find eight Iraqis of Kurdish ethnicity, including four children, in the back of a refrigerated truck on a highway near the town of Teruel on Friday.
Two parents with their three children between the ages of five to 10, a mother with her two-year-old son, and a man travelling alone were crammed in the truck’s refrigerated trailer.
The spokeswoman, speaking anonymously in line with police policy, said that all eight were in good health despite having been inside the truck’s cooling chamber while it was on.
