Ferry crew find 25 migrants in refrigerated container bound for UK

Wednesday, November 20th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

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A ferry crew found 25 migrants in a refrigerated container on a boat sailing from the Netherlands to Britain on Tuesday, emergency services said. The cargo vessel bound for Felixstowe returned to the Dutch port of Vlaardingen, near Rotterdam, as soon as the stowaways were found, they said in a statement. Read full article

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RedBaron
Why does the Press continue to report refrigerated trailers as containers?
A container is en entirely different type of transport unit and containers are not handled in Vlaardingen - This is a Ro-Ro port and only trailers are handled there.
Nov 20th, 2019 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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golfcronie
Hey Tinkle old fruit, The UK must be a good place to live if many people are tragically killed dying to get to the UK, How many people are dying to get into Argentina?
Nov 20th, 2019 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
Can you imagine getting into that lorry, knowing what happened to the last group who tried it? They were lucky to be found.
Nov 20th, 2019 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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