On Tuesday, November 19th, Dutch authorities found 25
migrants, UK bound, stowed away in a refrigerated container on a cargo ferry
bound for Britain shortly after it left the Netherlands.
The vessel quickly returned to the Dutch port of
Vlaardingen, emergency services said. Two of the migrants were taken to
hospital for treatment while the other 23 received a medical check-up in the
port before being taken away by police for processing, according to a statement
posted on the website of regional emergency services.
The origins of the
migrants is not known, and images of the stowaways being led to buses show
mainly young men. Authorities found the migrants in the refrigerated container
on a truck aboard the ferry, the statement said.
Police told Dutch
national broadcaster NOS that they had detained the driver and he was being
questioned over his possible involvement in human trafficking. The migrants
were aboard a Britannia Seaways ferry owned by Danish operator DFDS (DFDS.CO)
that had just embarked on a run across the North Sea to Felixstowe in southern
England.
Recall that on
October 23, 39 bodies, all believed to be Vietnamese migrants, were discovered
in the back of a refrigerated truck near London. Two people have been charged
in Britain and eight in Vietnam over the deaths. The container in which the
bodies were found had arrived on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.
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