The Hague - 16 illegal immigrants, including four minors, have been found hiding in a truck as they prepared to board a ferry from a Dutch city to England, Dutch police said Wednesday.
"Royal police found 16 foreigners in a truck in Imauden," the city on the Dutch west coast, police said in a statement.
She explained that the truck was carrying spare parts of cars and foreigners hid among them.
He said the 45-year-old Turkish truck driver called security personnel before the ferry sailed to indicate he had heard a fuss inside the truck.
Police found four minors, a woman and 11 men of different nationalities.
A police investigation was opened. The driver was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, the statement said.
On October 23, 39 migrants were found dead in a refrigerated truck near London in a tragedy that shook the world and highlighted highly organized illegal migration routes in Europe. The container arrived from Belgium.
In Greece, 41 immigrants were found alive in a refrigerated truck, Greek police said Monday.
