Updated 7:27am 15 May 2012

Illegal immigrants found in shipment heading for Liverpool

ILLEGAL immigrants were found stowed away in two shipments headed for Merseyside, it was revealed yesterday.

UK Border Agency officers discovered 22 immigrants hiding in the two loads – one of aluminium and another of car tyres.

They were stopped by officers in Calais before they reached British soil.

Nine men were found within a Romanian-registered lorry at around 8.15pm on April 13.

Using technology that detects evidence of carbon dioxide of humans on board trucks, officers discovered the Afghan stowaways hiding among aluminium products destined for a business in St Helens.

The men were detected during a visual inspection of a soft-sided Dutch-registered trailer which the lorry was towing, and found hiding among the trailer’s cargo.

Then, at around 1am on April 16, a German registered lorry with a soft-sided trailer was selected for examination by UK Border Agency officers as it was about to cross the Channel.

On opening the trailer, they found nine Afghani and three Iraqi men, along with one Palestinian traveller, in a load of tyres from Germany also destined for Liverpool.

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