LONDON (Reuters) - Police in Kent, southeast England, found nine people alive in the back of a truck on the M20 motorway on Wednesday, Sky News reported.

“Nine people are now being checked as a precaution by the South East Coast Ambulance Service before they are passed to Home Office immigration officers,” Sky quoted a police spokesman as saying.

Earlier, police in the nearby county of Essex found the bodies of 39 people inside a truck at an industrial estate and arrested the driver on suspicion of murder.