Seven individuals, including two teenage girls, were rescued from the back of a refrigerated cucumber truck

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Seven individuals, including two teenage girls, were rescued from the back of a refrigerated cucumber truck
Seven individuals, including two teenage girls, were rescued from the back of a refrigerated cucumber truck

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.

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Police officer inspecting the inside of a refrigerated lorry carrying crates of cucumbers.

Police officers rescue seven people from a refrigerated lorry.

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."

Elizabeth Baker

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