LONDON: LONDON: Police in Britain have found a lorry stacked with illegal immigrants, who have told them they belong to ‘Kashmir’.

It was not immediately clear which part of Jammu & Kashmir they belong to. Britain has a large immigrant population from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. It is likely the illegal immigrants belong to that side of the divided state.

Police said the immigrants were among 15 people discovered in the back of a lorry in Somerset on Tuesday night.

Paramedics treating the group found the immigrants suffering from severe dehydration. Immigration authorities were questioning the group.

A German national has been arrested for allegedly facilitating the group’s unlawful entry into the UK.

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An Avon and Somerset Police statement said it had received a number of calls concerning noises coming from the lorry.

It said the immigrants included women and a 15-year-old boy. They told police they were from Eritrea and Kashmir.

Supt Geoff Wessell said the occupants had boarded the lorry at Calais in France -- though it is not known how they got there.

