Odemira: illegal presence in Portugal, It may be due to leakage GNR. Victims without documents.
The lack of documents and possible illegal presence in Portugal, by the four individuals who followed a van that disobeyed the orders of GNR, in S.Teotónio, county of Odemira, It may be the reason for the leak to authorities.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), individuals, three Nepalese and Pakistani, They did not have any document in its possession. Of the two deaths, whose bodies were taken to the Medico-Legal Office of Beja Hospital, only one had a copy of the citizen card. It is Amil Kthapa, 26 year old, natural do Nepal.
It all started about the 01.00 hours, next to the river bridge River Mira, in Vila Nova de Milfontes and had the epilogue 30 kilometers after, near S.Teotónio, location individuals residing.
What would be a routine operation of the GNR because the vehicle does not have lights in the rear, He gave way to an escape and the screening of the vehicle that originated two dead and two seriously injured.
The most serious injured, Pakistani nationality and driver of the vehicle, It was transported in INEM helicopter to the Hospital of St. Joseph, in Lisbon and the other, a Nepali citizen, to the Hospital of the Alentejo Coast, in Santiago do Cacém. One is Nepalese and other Pakistani and have common the fact that they work for fruit and vegetable production in greenhouses companies in the region.
The van, with registration of property in Lisbon, He underwent a Stop operation, carried out by GNR of Vila Nova de Milfontes in EN 393, without being ordered to stop, but, the lack of lights on the vehicle rear, It led to an alert to another patrol that was in S.Teotónio, both locations in Odemira.
Arriving at the second patrol, already in EN 120, the driver of the vehicle disobeyed the stop order. The GNR initiated the persecution of fugitives and three kilometers later was to find and probed with two individuals already dead and two others seriously injured car.
O Major Carlos Bengala, Public Relations Territorial Command Beja, She said that individuals "slowed down and made mention of stop, then they pulled at high speed and fled ", adding that when the military embarked persecution in EN 113 "Were screened to find the truck and in two dead and two seriously injured", finished.
For relief operations, whose warning came to Relief Operations District Command (CDOS) Beja to 01,22 hours, They were involved 19 operating of Odemira Fire, VMER Alentejo Litoral, SIV Odemira supported by eight vehicles and a helicopter from the INEM.
Horticulture in the Southwest Alentejo
The Farmers Association of Southwest Alentejo (AHSA) has 12 associated companies, They are exploiting a production area 2000 hectares, and produce vegetables and ornamental outdoor, berries in tunnels and tomatoes and peppers in glass and plastic greenhouses.
The associates of AHSA employ about 2500 direct and whole workers have a sales volume 76 million. The planting and harvesting campaigns most of these employees are from Bulgaria, Romania, Thailand, Nepal, India and Pakistan.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
