Czech police said Thursday they had stopped a Turkish truck carrying 48 migrants probably from Syria, heading to western Europe. "Customs officers detected people in the truck when checking cargos with an X-ray," police spokesman Bohumil Malasek told AFP. The 47 men and one woman claimed they were from Syria and were on their way to Germany and the Netherlands, he said, adding none of them showed symptoms of any health problem. The police will now identify the migrants detained on a motorway connecting Slovakia's capital Bratislava and the second Czech city of Brno. Malasek said the migrants might ask for asylum in the Czech Republic, or the police may return them to the country from which they arrived in the Czech Republic. The EU member state of 10.7 million people has been reluctant to take any refugees from the Middle East or Africa since the big migrant wave hit Europe in 2015. frj/dl