Ten desperate migrants who were trying to get into Britain illegally have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in northern France.
The six women and four men, who claim to be from war-torn Eritrea, locked themselves into the truck, where temperatures dropped to – 4 C.
They were only found because one managed to get a call out to police on his mobile phone and mumble: ‘Help
French police managed to track them using a GPS tracking system in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
‘The call was traced by a mobile company, but the truck was still moving so they were hard to find,’ said a spokesman for Arras police.
‘The lorry was heading for Calais, from there the migrants hoped to be transported in the lorry across the sea to England.’ There they would have claimed asylum, the spokesman added.
The truck was eventually stopped by a police patrol near Boulogne-sur-mer, and all those on board rescued
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