Group stuck in lorry plead ‘we’re dying by cold’ in harrowing 999 call

Migrants stuck in lorry plead ‘we’re dying by cold’ in harrowing 999 callCambridgeshire Constabulary

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00:00We need help, please, ma'am. We are in Covid. We are dying. Can you help us, please?

00:18OK, so what's happening, sorry, lovely?

00:20Cold. The lorry is cold. We are dying by cold.

00:25OK, you're in the back of... OK, where are you at the moment? Do you know?

00:28No, we don't know where we are.

00:30OK, you don't know where you are. You're in the back of the lorry, though, yeah?

00:33Yeah, yeah.

00:35OK, right, bear with me. We've got officers out trying to look for the lorry, OK?

00:38Is there anything...

00:40OK, please, please. I think we have 200, like, 16 and 17. They are dying. Please.

00:48Do you know if it's refrigerated? Is it chilled in there?

00:52It's not chilled, no. We have women. Women. Like, pregnant.

00:57You've got pregnant women there as well?

00:59Yeah, yeah. She's dying. The pregnancy with the cold. It's hard. She's dying.

01:05How long have you been in there for? Do you know?

01:08After... From midnight. Yesterday midnight.

01:13Is there anything you can tell me about the lorry? Anything you've seen on it at all?

01:17Inside the graves.

01:19Do you know how many of you are in there?

01:22Twelve, ma'am. Twelve.

01:24Yeah. And have you managed to, like, make yourself notified to the driver at all?

01:29We try too hard. We try, like, two hours, three hours. We try to knock. We try to shout, but he's not listening to us.

01:37OK. We have got a lot of units out looking for you guys, OK?

01:41OK, please.