68 migrants found locked in containers at UK port
London
UK border agents found 68 people, including 15 children, locked in containers aboard four trucks that had arrived from the Netherlands at a port in Essex, UK authorities said yesterday.
The discovery was made when the trucks were searched at Harwich International Port, northeast of London, late Thursday, a UK Home Office spokesman said.
Seven people, including two pregnant women, were taken to a nearby hospital with abdominal and chest pains. East of England ambulance service said none were in a life-threatening or serious condition.
The stowaways – 35 Afghan nationals, 22 Chinese nationals, 10 people from Vietnam and one Russian – were found in four lorries which arrived on the Stena Hollandica, a combined freight and passenger ship.
The 68 people were all in the care of the UK Border Force, while four lorry drivers were being questioned by the Home Office’s criminal investigations team at separate police stations, having been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences.
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