Ceremony for asylum seekers found dead

Updated: 14:10, Sunday, 8 December 2002

A remembrance ceremony has been taking place in Wexford for eight Turkish asylum seekers who were found dead on a freight container in the city a year ago today.

A remembrance ceremony has been taking place in Wexford for eight Turkish asylum seekers who were found dead on a freight container in the city a year ago today.

The ceremony is being attended by families of the victims.

Four children between the ages of three and twelve died in the tragedy along with a woman and three men. Five others survived.

The group had endured 53 hours in a packed freight container on a ferry which sailed from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge to Ireland.

The outdoor ceremony is being held in the Drinagh Business Park in Wexford, where the bodies were discovered.

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