'We're dying by cold': Chilling 999 call from refrigerated lorry

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This was the chilling 999 call made to emergency services, from a desperate group who were allegedly trapped in a refrigerated vehicle.   In audio released by Cambridgeshire Police, a man could be heard telling the call handler "we are dying, can you help us please?".  When asked what the issue was he responded: "The lorry is cold. We are dying by cold. We don't know where we are."  He added: "We have two underage, like 16 or 17, they are dying. Please. We have woman. Pregnant. She's dying. With the cold, she's dying."  He revealed the group had been stuck inside the lorry since midnight the day before and had been banging on the side of the lorry for three hours.   The driver was initially arrested on suspicion of human trafficking but later released with no further action.

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00:00Hello? Hello, how can I help? We need help, please, ma'am. We are in Covid. We are dying.

00:07Can you help us, please? Okay, so what's happening, sorry, lovely? The lorry is cold. We are dying

00:20by cold. Okay, you're in the back of... Okay, where are you at the moment? Do you know?

00:24No, we don't know where we are. Okay, you don't know where you are. You're in the back

00:28of the lorry, though, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Okay, right, bear with me. We've got officers out

00:32trying to look for the lorry, okay? Is there anything... Okay, please, please. I think

00:37we have two underage, like 16 and 17. They are dying. Please. Do you know if it's refrigerated?

00:46Is it chilled in there? It's not chilled. We have woman, woman, like pregnant. You've

00:53got pregnant woman there as well? Yeah, yeah. She's dying, the pregnancy with the cold.

00:59It's hard. She's dying. How long have you been in there for? Do you know? After, from

01:06midnight, yesterday midnight. Is there anything you can tell me about the lorry, anything

01:11you've seen on it at all? Inside is graves. Do you know how many of you are in there?

01:18Twelve, ma'am, twelve. Yeah, and have you managed to, like, make yourself notified to

01:23the driver at all? We try to hard. We try, like, two hours, three hours to knock. We

01:30try to shout, but he's not listening to us. Okay. We have got a lot of units out looking

01:35for you guys, okay? Okay, please.

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