The truck through which the migrants had been found was getting used to transport wood (Image: AFP)

4 other people have been arrested after the our bodies of 18 lifeless migrants were found in Bulgaria.

The our bodies, including considered one of a child, had been discovered in an deserted truck out of doors the village of Lokorsko, a short distance from the capital town of Sofia. 

Borislav Sarafov, head of the rustic’s Nationwide Investigative Service, said they had likely suffocated. 

The migrants are believed to have crossed the Turkish border before hiding in the woodland for two days. 

Sarafov mentioned they have been then most probably loaded into the vehicle almost about the southeastern city of Yambol, and hid in compartments inside the truck, which was once additionally transporting wooden.

Government say 34 migrants, together with five youngsters, had been discovered alive and rushed to hospitals, the place they continue to be in very important but strong conditions. 

Health Minister Asen Medzhidiev mentioned: ‘There has been a scarcity of oxygen to these who had been locked in this truck. They have been freezing, wet, that they had no longer eaten for several days.’

Police confirmed that one among the four other people arrested following the gruesome discovery had already been sentenced on charges of human trafficking. 

Officers consider the deceased most likely died as a results of suffocation (Image: AFP)