migrants crammed into cage

essen - In a makeshift cage of less than four square meters were 25 people crammed into a truck. The Belgian authorities made the discovery in the Belgian town of Essen, close to the Dutch border. The truck was on its way to Britain.

The police could stop the truck after a tip. At a carwash was stop when starting the truck. The two Romanian men in the truck and the two owners of the carwash were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking.

sat in the truck 25 persons of Indian origin, undocumented aged 2 to 88 years old. They sat in the cage behind a load of onions.