http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20160531_02316639
Refugees make calls from emergency container
- In a sea container at the port of the Belgian Zeebrugge Tuesday morning fifteen refugees from Eritrea discovered. The stowaways had become distressed and panicked and struck a telephone alarm.
May 31 2016 by edm | Source: Belga
In the port of Zeebrugge Tuesday morning fifteen refugees from Eritrea discovered in a container. Reported that the Office of West Flanders Bruges department. The victims were in distress and called from the container itself to the emergency center.
Bruges local police and the maritime police immediately went in search of the particular container. Alert controllers of P & O Ferries could hear banging on the walls of a container, and the refugees were rescued from their plight.
Thirteen men and two women from the East African country of Eritrea were sitting on top of pallets of milk. They were given first aid and were made available to the Immigration Department.
According to initial findings, the container came from the northern French Steenvoorde and refugees around Calais hidden in the container. The container had been completely evaporated on the inside, suggesting that the victims may have been sitting for hours in. Breathing happened through small air holes, puddles they did in rubber gloves.
avoided disaster
The prosecutor finds that there is probably prevented a disaster. The latches on the doors of the metal container could, after all, not be opened from the inside. Furthermore, the container would be brought by train to Italy, while hoping to get the refugees in the UK.
"What the consequences would have been if these fifteen persons were not discovered in time in Zeebrugge and in a closed container had to take the train to Italy, is unknown. But she already saw were in a panic and emergency center have phoned because of breathlessness, the chances were real that some people travel would not have survived, "said Frank Demeester, the magistrate investigating smuggling at the Office of West Flanders.---------
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