Spanish Police Find Migrant in Spare Wheel Well of Car
Spanish police said Thursday they found a migrant hidden inside the spare wheel well of a car that arrived at the southern port of Algeciras by ferry from Morocco.
Police said in a statement that the female driver of the car became "very nervous and evasive" when they asked her to open the trunk of vehicle after it arrived from Tangiers.
In a video released by police an officer can be seen removing several pillows from the trunk and lifting a black cover to reveal a man dressed in shorts and a t-shirt curled up inside the wheel well.
Police said the man was a Moroccan national. The driver of the car, a Moroccan national who is legally resident in Spain, was detained.
In August, a 27-year-old Moroccan man suffocated to death while trying to illegally enter Spain hidden inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car that arrived by ferry in Almeria in southern Spain from Melilla, a tiny Spanish territory in north Africa.
Source: Agence France Presse
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