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. check trucks and trucks arriving at the British border when they leave a transcbad ferry that just arrived from France
Twenty-one people, including children as young as 12, were found inside a refrigerated truck arriving in the UK.
Newhaven in Susbad on Thursday.
The details of the operation of the border forces have just been unveiled, but a criminal investigation is underway.
UK.
It had already been reported that 15 children had been found in the truck, but this figure was later revised by the Home Office.
A spokesman said the group included 17 people who said they were between 12 and 17 years old and who "introduced themselves as Vietnamese."
"A total of 11 minors were confirmed and transferred to social services," he said. stopped at Newhaven Harbor on Thursday
The truck was stopped when he arrived from Dieppe in France.
Children do not need medical treatment and have been transferred to social services.
Adults – five women and five men – were interviewed. by immigration agents, said the Home Office.
An 18-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman were removed from the United Kingdom
The remaining eight adults, aged 21 to 28, were asked to report regularly to the Home Office while their cases
Andrut Duma, aged 29, appeared before magistrates on Saturday charged with immigration offenses and was remanded in custody until a hearing before the Crown Court in Lewes on November 26.
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