Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

German police stop truck with 51 migrants inside

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German police said they have stopped a truck near the German-Polish border with 51 people squeezed inside, among them 17 children. Federal police said the truck was stopped on Saturday morning on the A12 highway near the eastern German town of Muellrose. Some of the people inside were dehydrated and all were thirsty and hungry. According to first findings, most of the people are from Iraq. Police said the 46-year-old Turkish driver was detained on suspicion of human traffickin­g. The truck was also registered in Turkey.

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