Two teen girls and five others rescued from cucumber lorry after desperate woman screamed ‘I can’t breathe’ from inside
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.
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.”