Serbia's police arrest two suspects in smuggling migrants found dead in Paraguay

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Two people were arrested in Serbia on suspicion of organising the illegal crossing of the state border by seven illegal migrants, whose remains were found in a container in Paraguay, Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

The police apprehended a Moroccan citizen H.M., 39, and an Algerian S.K., 29.

Paraguayan authorities discovered last Friday the bodies of seven heavily decomposed bodies of people believed to be stowaways in a container with fertiliser sent from Serbia three months ago.

The suspects were detained for 48 hours and would be brought before the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Sremska Mitrovica, in northern Serbia.