Afghan 'smuggling bid' youths die

More than 50 Afghans, mainly children and youths, have been found dead after suffocating inside a shipping container in southwestern Pakistan in an apparent human smuggling attempt.More than 100 illegal immigrants were discovered inside the container, which had been locked from the outside, 20km from the border town of Quetta on Saturday.Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's Pakistan correspondent, said the immigrants were first discovered after local residents at a lorry stop heard sounds coming from the container.Most of the dead were reported to be teenage Afghans and at least five were small children.The stench from the container suggested some of the immigrants may have been dead for days, Rasool Bakhsh, a police spokesman, said.