A group of eight suspected illegal immigrants trapped inside a refrigerated lorry trailer after they raised the alarm by throwing oranges out of a hole in its side. Motorists spotted the fruit being flung from a small hole in the trailer as the lorry became stuck in a traffic jam on the A14 near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
Emergency services including an air ambulance rushed to the scene and three of the eight people found in the lorry were taken to hospital. Police on the way to a crash were alerted to their plight when they saw fresh fruit being thrown from a hole in the HGV. The MAGPAS air ambulance was called to the scene shortly before 12:30 pm after receiving reports that one individual was seriously unwell.
All eight people were assessed at the roadside and three people were taken to Hinchingbrooke Hospital by land ambulance for further investigation. No one sustained life-threatening injuries.
A man has since been arrested on suspicion of assisting unlawful immigration.
This incident follows the discovery of 39 bodies in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Grays, Essex, last month. The victims were Vietnamese migrants and the vehicle's driver, Maurice Robinson, faces charges of manslaughter relating to each one.
Police are still searching for Ronan Hughes and 34-year-old brother Christopher Hughes.
And Eamon Harrison, 22, from Mayobridge in County Down, faced Dublin's High Court over a European Arrest Warrant to have him extradited to Britain. He is accused of delivering the trailer in which the migrants were found to Zeebrugge port in Belgium before it hit the UK.
Source: dailymail.co.uk