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THE FRAIL SURVIVORS found inside a shipping container at a British port at the weekend following a “horrific ordeal” are Sikhs from Afghanistan, police said.
One man was found dead in the container, and 34 men, women and children — all suffering from severe dehydration and hypothermia — were found still alive Saturday after staff at Tilbury Docks, east of London, heard banging and screaming coming from inside.
All the survivors were taken to nearby hospitals, where four remain, and the local Sikh community has been helping with their religious and clothing needs.
Using interpreters, police intend to interview the survivors to pin down how they came to be found in such circumstances.
The container had arrived by truck at Zeebrugge seaport in Belgium around 12 hours before the people inside were discovered at Tilbury, having crossed the North Sea on a ferry.
They may have been inside the container for several hours before that.
“The welfare and health of the people is our priority at this stage,” said superintendent Trevor Roe, of the local Essex police.
“Now they are well enough, our officers and colleagues from the Border Force will be speaking to them via interpreters so we can piece together what happened and how they came to be in the container.
“We now understand that they are from Afghanistan and are of the Sikh faith.
“We have had a good deal of help from partners within the local Sikh community in the Tilbury area to ensure that these poor people, who would have been through a horrific ordeal, are supported in terms of their religious and clothing needs.”
- © AFP 2014.
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Americans must be pretty stupid if Apple thinks people will confuse a Samsung phone with an iPhone…The screens on the Samsung notes are massive…. All the igeeks would wet themselves if an iphone with a similar size screen became a reality…
If Americans are stupid, imagine how stupid Irish people must be
It will become a reality, there will (supposedly) be two different models, one with 4.7″ screen in September/October, and another 5.5″ screen later on in the year. The larger one obviously won’t be Apple copying the phablet class of device, as created by Samsung.
Americans believe in everything that they see on their television set.
I’m sorry but that comment was moronic. Do you think patent laws come down to what un-technical people might see in front of them that looks like something else??
The court cases in the US relate to much earlier model phones not the current crop.
Yes, these cases do drag on. It makes zero difference to the unethicality (I just made up a word!) of Samsung.
An iPhone with a bigger screen lol. For years I’ve heard people say the screens on the Galaxy’s were too big and Apple had it just right. What will these numpties say when a big screen iPhone comes out? No doubt it will be something like Apple are innovative.
“For years I’ve heard people say the screens on the Galaxy’s were too big and Apple had it just right.What will these numpties say when a big screen iPhone comes out? No doubt it will be something like Apple are innovative.”
I will be a direct quote of something Tim Cook says at the launch, a soundbite, something like “it’s the sweet spot of large screen formats” – the way they currently do with this whole “it just works” mantra.
It’s not the size that counts its How you use it
Your wife is so sweet to you!
Say your boyfriend loves u
Oh, how droll
Both these companies should be concerned about China’s up and coming smart phones.
Apple are not concerned. They still sell more than enough at their desired price and are not interested in the cheap end of the market, why should you when your profit fir the last quarter was around 9 billion on a turnover of 37 billion. 37% profit approx. Worry, Apple lol
Samsung are some dirty operators. I’ll never buy one of their products again.
…the forbidden fruit logo says enough about Apple.
Not really. Have a read of Samsung’s background. They’ve been up to dirty tricks – massive world-wide price fixing (it’s down to Samsung that we pay so much for technology because they fixed with the competition to keep production down and prices up) – they’ve been fined numerous times for this, they’ve paid out billions in fines over the years. Bribery on a massive scale. Wholesale stealing of patents. It’s the way they do business: steal the patent’s technology, put out a product, get sued, counter-sue, thus tying everyone up in litigation for years, then settle out of court. They put Kodak out of business basically by stealing their technology. Not just Kodak, lots of companies and thousands of people are out of work because of the way Samsung does business.
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war
Read this for background – it explains very well the kind of tricks Samsung get up to that end up with us all paying more than we should.
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