Sudanese Migrant Crushed on M25 After Hiding Under Lorry

                        

A migrant who hid under a lorry travelling from France has been killed trying to get out while the vehicle stopped on the M25.

He was one of two men from Sudan thought to have climbed under the lorry at Calais on Friday 12 December 2014, police said. Continue...

They decided to leave the vehicle after becoming "extremely cold" after the lorry arrived in England.

But one of the men is believed to have fallen beneath the rear wheels when it started to move off again, police said.

The other man was not injured and was detained by police on suspicion of immigration offences.

The driver, who did not initially stop at the scene, has since been tracked down. Police said they believe he was unaware of the incident, and as a result did not pull over at the time. He has not been arrested.

Paramedics tried to revive the man but he died at the scene.

In November, local officials said there were around 2,500 illegal immigrants at the port, with the majority from Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Syria.

One migrant said at the time that he did not care about the risks involved. "This country is not good to live in, we have to go to England," he added.

Source: BBC