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'Migrants' found in French lorry on A1 in Cambridgeshire | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
Twenty seven people believed to be migrants have been found in the back of a lorry on the A1 in Cambridgeshire. | |
Police stopped the vehicle between Wittering and Stamford and the lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of facilitating immigration. | |
Police said 27 people with a variety of nationalities were detained. | |
Five were taken to hospital suffering from dehydration and the others were assessed at the scene, the ambulance service said. | |
Three ambulances, four ambulance officers and a hazardous area response team were sent to the Great North Road north of Peterborough at 11:55 BST. | |
'Lined up' | |
"About 25 people" were assessed by staff, who took five of them to hospital, an ambulance spokeswoman said. | |
Kevin Monaghan, who was driving on the A1 at the time the lorry was stopped, said he saw "undercover police cars and normal police cars" at the scene. | |
"You could see a lot of people lined up at the barrier on the central reservation. I guess they'd been in the lorry." | |
Cambridgeshire Police said Hertfordshire Police first alerted them to a lorry with a French registration carrying "about 30 possible immigrants... travelling north on the M11". | |
It then continued on to the A1 before being stopped. | |
No further details are known about the people inside the lorry at this time. | No further details are known about the people inside the lorry at this time. |
The vehicle was escorted to the Haddon Services area off junction 17 of the A1, police said. |