Port of Tilbury dockers find stowaways in container
Dockworkers at the Port of Tilbury in the United Kingdom Wednesday evening discovered four men close to death in a container.
“We understand the container had come from Nigeria and was due to stand in Tilbury for a period before being shipped out to Amsterdam. It is not certain, but the four men may have been in the container for between two and three weeks. Had the port workers not heard them they would almost certainly have died,” said Steve Brant, manager of the Essex ambulance service.
Three of the men required hospital treatment while the fourth was handed over to the immigration service.