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Martin Fricker

Desperate migrants struggling to breathe rescued from back of lorry on M25

Desperate migrants struggling to breathe have been rescued from the back of a lorry on the M25.

Police said 10 migrants were found in the back after it had pulled over on the motorway in Essex.

Witnesses saw one man coughing while lying on the ground next to the lorry and another
staggering from the container.

Essex Police said 10 migrants, all males, were held on immigration offences and the Polish driver arrested.

The lorry was found on the motorway (stock) (Tim Graham/Getty Images)

It is the latest example of traffickers ruthlessly cashing in on the dreams of migrants desperate to reach the UK.

Last month 39 Vietnamese nationals were found dead in a refrigerated container in Grays, Essex.

It was revealed yesterday that one of the 10 teenagers found in the trailer had gone missing from an asylum centre in the Netherlands.

Lorry driver Mo Robinson, 25, from Craigavon, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, has been charged with a string of offences including 39 counts of manslaughter.

And yesterday 23-year-old Christopher Kennedy, from nearby Darkley, was charged with human trafficking over the tragedy.

Detectives have urged Ronan Hughes, 40, and his brother Christopher, 34, from the town of Armagh, to hand themselves in.

They are both wanted on suspicion of man-­slaughter and human trafficking.

The RNLI rescued a group of 10 suspected migrants from a boat in the English Channel yesterday.

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