PTI

London, Aug 13: Three Indians were taken into custody by police in London for allegedly entering the UK illegally while travelling in a delivery lorry from Belgium.

Employees at a timber yard near the Bristol international airport were shocked when they found the three people hiding in the back of a lorry, police said on Sunday.

They spoke little English but managed to convey that they had been in the lorry for four days without food or drink.

They said they did not know they were in England.

Managing director of the timber yard Richard Goldstone said: “The lorry had come over from Belgium on the ferry with a load of timber. When the driver, who was also Belgian, opened the lorry with one of our forklifts there were three men inside.”

"They said they were from India," he said, adding that their first question was "What country are we in?"

"They also said they had been in the lorry for four days, so the first thing we did was give them some food and water. The driver had not known about it.”

"We all felt incredibly sorry for them because they had spent four days in the heat without knowing where they were going. We rang the police who alerted immigration at Bristol airport. The men made no attempt to run away."