At least 25 illegal Sikh immigrants, including children, were found hiding in a secret compartment of a Romanian truck by police at an industrial zone in Belgium. On a tip-off about human trafficking, police stopped a Romanian lorry and found 25 Sikhs aged between 2 and 88 squashed together in a secret compartment.
“Behind a whole load of onions in the hold we discovered a self-made cage. The cage was no bigger than 4 square metres, but contained 25 people of Sikh origins, all squashed together,” a local official said. “The people could be freed from this hazardous condition and were taken care of by civil protection officers,” he said.