Six men found in lorry trailer after ‘we can’t breathe’ 999 call

Six men have been found in a lorry trailer travelling through Cambridgeshire. Police received a 999 call where the caller said they could not breathe on April 9.

The call dropped but the control room managed to track the location of the moving lorry using an incident response app called Goodsam. Officers found the lorry on the A142 between Ely^[1] and Soham.

The men were found in the lorry trailer. They had travelled from France earlier in the morning.

A Cambridgeshire^[2] Police spokesperson said on Wednesday evening (April 10): "Yesterday morning we received a dropped 999 call from a person in the trailer of a refrigerated artic lorry travelling on the M11 into our county. The caller stated they couldn't breathe, before the call dropped out, however our control room managed to utilise Goodsam to track the location of the moving lorry through Huntingdonshire before we caught up with it on the A142 between Ely and Soham.

"Six men were found in the trailer, having travelled from France earlier in the morning. They were all checked over by our colleagues from the East of England Ambulance Service NHS^[3] Trust before being taken into our custody in relation to immigration offences which has since been passed to the UK Border Agency for investigation."

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