Vietnamese Embassy working with GMP to help identify human remains found at demolished Oldham mill

The Vietnamese Embassy in the UK is working with police to help identify human remains found at a demolished mill in Oldham, the Manchester Evening News can reveal.

Demolition workers discovered remains relating to one person at the Bismark House Mill on Bower Street On Saturday - more than two months after a huge fire gutted the building in May. At the time of the blaze, it was believed nobody was inside the mill.

On Wednesday (July 27) Greater Manchester Police confirmed that further human remains relating to a second victim had been found. Detectives suspect the discoveries are connected to four missing Vietnamese nationals after the force received a report 'via Vietnam' on July 21.

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The M.E.N understands police are looking at whether the mill was being used to farm cannabis as one line of enquiry. Multiple sources have told how the building was being used as a site to grow the class B drug.

On Tuesday (July 26), the Deputy Ambassador of Vietnam in the UK, named as Tô Minh Thu by the Viet Nam News Agency, was pictured at the investigation site speaking to crews from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.

It's understood that the country's embassy has been working directly with GMP in line with standard procedure, and to help with the identification of the remains and any further discoveries. Formal identification is not believed to have taken place.

Detectives have warned that the number of bodies found may still increase from two, as investigators continue to probe the demolition site for further victims.

"Though we’ve now recovered human remains to suggest that at least two people were in the mill during the fire, we remain