Police called out to lorry full of people

Police audio of a desperate call made to emergency services about 12 people stuck inside a lorry near Huntington, Cambridgeshire

Transcript

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.