SEVEN people including two teenage girls have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated cucumber lorry.
Cambridgeshire Police said a neighbouring force received a call from a stressed woman who said: “I’m trapped and I can’t breathe” on January 7.
Seven people including two teenage girls have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated cucumber lorry[/caption]
Officers were able to track down the refrigerated HGV in Cottenham[/caption]
The police stop of the refrigerated cucumber lorry[/caption]
Officers were able to track down the refrigerated HGV in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, where seven people from Eritrea, South Africa, were rescued.
Two were 17-year-old girls who told officers about the “awful” treatment they had experienced at the hands of smuggling gangs.
The driver of the lorry, a 59-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of assisting illegal entry into the UK.
He has been bailed until April.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said: “All seven people have been transferred to the immigration services and an investigation is ongoing.”
