"Six Migrant Women Rescued from Refrigerated Truck in France After Distress Call to BBC"

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Source: The Guardian
"Six Migrant Women Rescued from Refrigerated Truck in France After Distress Call to BBC"
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Six women, including four Vietnamese nationals and two from Iraq, were rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in France after sending a panicked text message to a BBC reporter. The women had spent over 10 hours in the cramped space, surrounded by boxes of bananas, hoping to reach the UK or Ireland. As the lorry headed in the opposite direction, the women began to panic, and one of them managed to contact the reporter. The reporter alerted authorities, and the lorry was intercepted by French police. The driver was arrested, and an investigation into human trafficking has been launched.

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