Nine ‘illegal immigrants’ found stowing away in the back of a lorry at a business park in Kent
They were taken to Dover and handed into the care of Home Office Immigration
NINE suspected illegal immigrants have been discovered hidden in the back of a lorry at a business park.
Police were called to Gillingham business park in Kent at 1.20pm on Friday after receiving reports of people stowed away in a HGV.
The nine people were taken to Dover and handed to Home Office immigration officials. It is unclear whether they had crossed the English Channel from the Calais Jungle Camp.
Within 10 days last month, French authorities moved nearly 7,000 migrants from countries including Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea out of the rat-infested slum to sites around France.
Many had converged at the shanty town in Calais after fleeing poverty, persecution and war in an effort to get smuggled into Britain on freight trucks.
A Kent Police spokesman said: "Kent Police was called to Gillingham business park at 1.20pm on November 11 following a report of concern for individuals located in a lorry.
"It is reported nine people were in the lorry. They were taken to Dover and handed into the care of Home Office Immigration."
Last month in Kent, four suspected illegal immigrants seen disembarking a lorry in bridge, near Canterbury, were held and handed over to Home Office immigration officials.
On the same day five suspected illegal immigrants were filmed in footage posted online getting out of a HGV near junction 1B of the M25.
Last month suspected illegal immigrants were found hiding in the back of a lorry in Worcester after another driver heard loud banging noises.
The HGV was stopped by the side of the road before cops opened the doors and discovered three men sitting on a pile of cardboard boxes inside.
And in September a 20-day-old baby was rescued from suffocating in back of lorry at Watford Gap services after being smuggled into UK from Calais Jungle.
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