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Suspected migrants helped from truck by lorry driver

New video has been released showing a Spanish lorry driver apparently helping migrants or refugees from the back of his truck at the Dartford Crossing in Kent.

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Lorry driver helps suspected migrants leave back of truck

New video has been released showing a Spanish lorry driver apparently helping migrants or refugees from the back of his truck at the Dartford Crossing in Kent. It was taken by another driver travelling on the M25 who was stunned by what he saw. He called the police but by the time they got there there was no trace of the driver or his human cargo. The trucker's employers have since told us he was unaware anyone was in the back of the lorry until he heard noises. Nashreen Issa reports.

Amazing video: lorry driver helps suspected migrants out of lorry on M25

Five suspected migrants have been filmed exiting a lorry in Dartford on the M25.

The video shows the driver ushering people out. The Spanish company which owns the truck says their driver was alerted by other cars, after they heard noise coming from inside. This comes as another four migrants were found in Canterbury earlier that morning and handed to the Home Office.

Our truck has followed all regulations correctly by our company (he is prohibited to stop under 200 km from any port, he checks the truck before moving and before he embarks, he does all checks including scanning and all point controls). Our drivers are all very experienced in transport and we would like to briefly explain how this incident happened. Our driver hasn’t left the truck unattended at any time, he has also passed ALL controls and scanners TWICE at the port. English police opened doors at the control scanners and found nothing!! We have incorporated two systems that control doors opening. We think that the only way this could have happened, is once he was inside the ferry, the GPS did not receive signal to detect this problem. Our driver doesn't stop before Calais - the last point is on the A282 UK road. Police confirmed at the port that all checks were fine. The driver was alerted by other cars in a traffic jam, because they heard voices and noises coming from inside the truck. He got down and went to see what was the problem and opened doors and realised that immigrants were inside the truck. Shocked by this action he did not know what to do, as he has never been in this situation before and told them to step down from the truck straight away. Nobody steps down immigrants from the truck in the middle of the motorway seen by thousands of people if he had any intention of transporting immigrants.

– El Mosca

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