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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam Europe community affairs correspondent

Six women rescued from back of lorry in France after texts to reporter

Six women have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in France after a panicked text message to a BBC reporter set off a frantic cross-border search.

The women – four Vietnamese nationals and two from Iraq – spent more than 10 hours in the cramped space, surrounded by boxes of bananas, in hopes of making it to the UK or Ireland, according to the BBC.

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