Police audio of a desperate call made to emergency services about 12 people stuck inside a lorry near Huntington, Cambridgeshire
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00:00Hello? Hello, how can I help? We need help, please, ma'am. We are in the cold, sorry.
00:10We are immigrants, we are dying. Can you help us, please? OK, so what's happening, sorry,
00:15lovely? Cold, the lorry is cold. We are dying by cold. OK, you're in the back of... OK,
00:22where are you at the moment, do you know? No, we don't know where we are. OK, you don't
00:26know where you are. You're in the back of the lorry, though, yeah? Yeah, yeah. OK, right,
00:30bear with me. We've got officers out trying to look for the lorry, OK? Is there anything...
00:35OK, please, please. I think we have two, like 16 and 17, they are dying. Please. Do you
00:44know if it's refrigerated? Is it chilled in there? It's not chilled, no. We have women,
00:50women, like pregnant. You've got pregnant women there as well? Yeah, yeah. She's dying
00:57in the pregnancy with the cold, it's hard. She's dying. How long have you been in there
01:02for, do you know? After, from midnight, yesterday midnight. OK, is there anything you can tell
01:10me about the lorry, anything you've seen on it at all? Inside is graves. Do you know how
01:15many of you are in there? Twelve, ma'am, twelve. Yeah. And have you managed to, like,
01:22make yourself notified to the driver at all? We tried so hard, we tried like two hours,
01:28three hours, we tried to knock, we tried to shout, but he did not listen to us. OK. We
01:33have got a lot of units out looking for you guys, OK? OK, please.