Two 16-year-old Afghan illegal
immigrants narrowly escaped suffocating to death Monday when a
passer-by heard their pleas for release from a Bulgarian lorry
parked at a Venetian service station.
A lady filling her car with petrol gave the alarm after
she heard the two banging on the side of the truck as their
oxygen ran out while the Bulgarian drivers were enjoying a meal
in the café.
Police and ambulance services rushed the two to hospital
at Mestre while authorities interrogated the drivers, who said
they were unaware of the stowaways who may have climbed aboard
the container at the Greek port of Patras.
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