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This is the sealed refrigerated lorry where three migrants were saved from suffocating after calling police to say they were struggling to breathe .
Cambridgeshire Police said the vehicle, believed to have travelled from France, was tracked along the A14 and the M11 with the help of Essex Police. Those in the back of the lorry called us for help saying they were suffocating and struggling to breathe, a Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said. A hunt for the vehicle was launched and the lorry, believed to have travelled from France, was found at Brampton Hut services just before 4.30pm.
The three men were found to be safe and uninjured in the back of the truck, as police shared an image of a lorry being examined at a truck stop, and have been passed onto the immigration services.
Three men were rescued from suffocating inside a sealed refrigerated lorry tracked to Brampton Hut service near Huntingdon, Cambs, after they phoned police to say they were struggling to breathe.
Three men were rescued from suffocating inside a sealed refrigerated lorry tracked to Brampton Hut service near Huntingdon, Cambs, after they phoned police to say they were struggling to breathe.
Maurice Mo Robinson, 26, was part of a million-pound people-smuggling ring
Gang brought people into Britain in back of lorries - earning him £100,000
In October 2019, Robinson opened back of his refrigerated trailer in Grays, Essex
Was met with a gush of steam and the 39 bodies of people who died on journey
Robinson admitted 39 counts of manslaughter and is now facing sentencing
Robinson called Ronan Hughes - the gang s ringleader - when he found bodies
The final moments of the victims were played at the Old Bailey on Thursday