Statement from Assistant Chief Constable Tim Smith.
Officer in overall charge of the investigation into the deaths of 39 men and women discovered at Grays, Essex on 23rd October 2019.
“Essex Police is continuing to work closely with HM Senior Coroner and the National Crime Agency to progress the investigation and help identify the victims. At this time, we believe the victims are Vietnamese nationals, and we are in contact with the Vietnamese Government. We are in direct contact with a number of families in Vietnam and the UK, and we believe we have identified families for some of the victims whose journey ended in tragedy on our shores. The confirmatory evidence needed to formally present cases to HM Senior Coroner for her consideration has not yet been obtained. This evidence is being gathered across a number of jurisdictions worldwide. As a result, we cannot at this time announce the identity of any of the victims. We will continue to co-operate closely with the Vietnamese Government, and others, to identify the victims and offer our support to all those affected by this tragedy. From the outset, our thoughts have been and remain with those who have lost loved ones in this tragic incident.
I would like to continue to appeal to anyone who has information that may assist us in our process to identify the victims to please contact Essex Police.
Details of how you can pass information can be found at mipp.police.uk where there are also details on how to contact us translated in to Vietnamese.
We have specially trained people, supported by Vietnamese interpreters, answering our dedicated hotline between 9am to midnight, seven days a week on 0800 056 0944 if you live in the UK and 0044 207 158 0010 if you're dialling internationally.
Please come forward and help us to provide answers to the 39 people's families.”
shores
shore本义是“岸，滨”（the land along the edge of the sea or ocean, a lake or another large area of water），此处shores，复数形式，表示“国家”，特指濒海国家，英文解释为“a country, especially one with a coast”，如：foreign shores 外国，举个🌰：
What brings you to these shores?
是什么把你带到这个国家来的？
jurisdiction
表示“司法权；审判权；管辖权；管辖范围”，英文解释为“the authority that an official organization has to make legal decisions about sb/sth；A jurisdiction is a state or other area in which a particular court and system of laws has authority.”举个🌰：
The British police have no jurisdiction over foreign bank accounts.
英国警方对外国银行的账户没有司法管辖权。
at/from the outset
表示“从一开始；开端”，英文解释为“at/from the beginning of sth”举个🌰：
I made it clear right from the outset that I disapproved.
从一开始我就明确地说我不赞成。
The Independent相关报道如下：
Essex lorry deaths: 39 migrants found dead ‘were all Vietnamese’, police say
The 39 migrants found dead in the back of a lorry in an industrial park in Grays, Essex, are all Vietnamese nationals, police have said.
The bodies of eight women and 31 men were found in the refrigerated trailer in the early hours of 23 October, prompting an international effort to trace their identities
trailer
表示“拖车；挂车”，英文解释为“a truck, or a container with wheels, that is pulled by another vehicle”，如：a car towing a trailer with a boat on it 拖着一辆载有小船的拖车的小汽车。
再回顾一下前面提到的各种“车”相关表达：
a refrigerated truck 冷藏货柜车 a container truck 集装箱卡车 the tractor — the front of the truck 车头——卡车前部
the driver's cab and engine 司机驾驶室和引擎 the truck tractor 牵引车；卡车头 the cargo trailer 载货挂车 the license plate 车牌 a small, inflatable boat 小型充气船 a cattle truck 一辆运畜车
Now Essex Police has confirmed they are working with Vietnamese officials after linking a number of the dead to families in the country.
Two people in Vietnam have been arrested since investigations in the country began.
Assistant chief constable Tim Smith of Essex Police said on Friday evening: “At this time, we believe the victims are Vietnamese nationals, and we are in contact with the Vietnamese government.”
constable
表示“（英国等国家中级别最低的）警官”，英文解释为“In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.”举个🌰：
Have you finished your report, Constable?
警察，你的报告完成了吗？
It comes as further arrests are made in relation to the deaths – including 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison in Ireland who is currently the subject of an extradition request from the UK authorities.
extradition
表示“引渡”，英文解释为“the act of making someone return for trial to another country or state where they have been accused of doing something illegal”，如：emergency extraditions 紧急引渡。
The 22-year-old from Co Down, Northern Ireland, appeared in Dublin High Court on Friday charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, along with human trafficking and immigration offences. He has since been remanded in custody.
拘留/拘押
“在押候审”：remand sb in custody (=send someone to prison to wait until they go to court)，“拘留某人”也可以说“hold/keep sb in custody”。
custody表示“（庭审前的）拘押，拘留，羁押”，英文解释为“when someone is kept in prison until they go to court, because the police think they have committed a crime”，举个🌰：
She was taken into custody as a suspect.
她作为嫌疑犯遭到拘留。
In a statement, the Vietnamese Embassy in London sent its “heartfelt condolences” to the families of the victims – adding that it was “deeply saddened” to discover the victims may have come from the east Asian nation.
condolences
一般用复数，表示“吊唁；慰唁；哀悼”，英文解释为“sympathy that you feel for sb when a person in their family or that they know well has died; an expression of this sympathy”，如：to give/offer/express your condolences 表示慰唁，举个🌰：
We offer our sincere condolences to his widow.
我们对他的遗孀致以诚挚的慰问。
Its statement added: “The Embassy of Vietnam in London will closely coordinate with the relevant authorities of Vietnam and UK to support the families of the Vietnamese victims, if any, to bring their loved ones home.”
It is still not known how the victims, who police initially believed were Chinese nationals, entered the lorry trailer before it travelled from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex.
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