Migrants removed from refrigerated truck after emergency call | Abroad

“Everything started with an emergency call from the refrigerated truck. Someone called the emergency number with the message that they were stuck there,” says the officer of the local police Geel-Laakdal-Meerhout. “Through a mast determination we were able to verify that the call came from the Westelijke Ring. When we arrived on site, there was a tractor with a trailer, a cold store. Together with the fire brigade we broke that trailer open. We found it in the container eight people who were chilled. “

The emergency services have brought the eight people, whose nationality is not yet known, to the hospital in Geel. Six of them immediately went after the investigation with the police, two others needed a little more care.

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