We Were Sent to Bomb Lagos Airport (NAMA) – Boko Haram Suspect

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Update: We Were Sent to Bomb Lagos Airport (NAMA) – Boko Haram Suspect</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8332356624703075763" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXEBCAKtrbmPHId76uFl7gFGLarCIEe3Kpo9ui3bct2Wa2PuwyjUD_2I0RhC-cZgFuk5DE-deK7etaF0aEzC3FTUCJHB2X9YlQaJEY4F2Uwgli3V3nk7GW3oU2e-K8jvYMv29cqd5l5o/s1600/180814F-NAMA-Bomber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXEBCAKtrbmPHId76uFl7gFGLarCIEe3Kpo9ui3bct2Wa2PuwyjUD_2I0RhC-cZgFuk5DE-deK7etaF0aEzC3FTUCJHB2X9YlQaJEY4F2Uwgli3V3nk7GW3oU2e-K8jvYMv29cqd5l5o/s1600/180814F-NAMA-Bomber.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Boko Haram suspect who was arrested at National Airport Management Authority (NAMA) annex in Lagos yesterday, confessed last night that he was sent along with other Boko Haram members to Lagos to bomb various parts of the city.<br /><br />The physically challenged 22-year-old suspect who was caught with canisters around his neck, in his confession, told security operatives that his two other colleagues were assigned the task of bombing Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), as well as the densely populated Lagos Island and Apapa areas of the megacity.<br /><br />Security source, who spoke exclusively to THISDAY, said the suspect (name withheld) had confessed that he alongside several others were recruited from Niger Republic and were trained extensively before their deployment.<br /><br />He also said the plot to bomb Lagos would not be simultaneously done, a clear deviation from the planned simultaneous attacks last year March, when the sect tried to bomb various designated places across the state at the same time.<br /><br />According to him, the attempt by the physically-challenged suspect was the first attempt to bomb Lagos after the twin bomb blasts in Apapa two months ago that claimed no fewer than five persons including the suicide bomber.<br /><br />A security official, who spoke to THISDAY on the strict condition of anonymity, said the attempt would have been successful but for the inability of the explosives to detonate when they were supposed to.<br /><br />He said: “He was caught because when he tried to set off the explosives, there was a hitch. He ran back to an obscure place to check it out and fix it.<br /><br />His suspicious movement and the frustration evident on his face aroused the suspicion of security operatives attached to NAMA.”<br /><br />Also speaking, another source from the state security department said already, investigations had kicked off in full gear to round up other suspects who were said to have been deployed to wreak havoc in the state.<br /><br />The suspect was arrested at the NAMA annex facility, known as CENTREX, about 300 meters from the international terminal of the airport, opposite the airport cathedral.<br /><br />THISDAY learnt that the suspect was making frantic phone calls, and looked frustrated and restless.<br />His mannerism and slovenly conduct aroused the suspicion of security personnel who were watching him and subsequently arrested him.<br /><br /><br />He was taken to the MMIA police station at Beesam junction.<br /><br />Shortly after his arrest, the police had initially pleaded for more time to undertake the investigation to confirm the identity and mission of the suspect.<br /><br />The police also said that the suspected explosive device found on the suspect would be examined and confirmed later, adding that it would be hasty to describe it as an explosive.<br />A police officer, however, described the device found on the suspect as locally made explosives.<br /><br />Reacting to the incident, the General Manager, Public Affairs of NAMA, Supo Atobatele, said the suspect was within the vicinity of the airport making phone calls along the Airport Road when the agency’s security personnel accosted him.<br /><br />He said his incoherent explanation aroused further suspicion, especially with the suspicious looking canisters on his person.<br /><br />“The attention of NAMA has been drawn to insinuations that a suspected suicide bomber was arrested at one of the agency’s facilities at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Monday.<br /><br />“The basic truth however is that the said suspect was on the ground making phone calls along the Airport Road close to CENTREX, an annex office of NAMA when the agency’s security personnel accosted him.<br /><br />“His incoherent explanation exposed him to the security personnel who later found on him some devices suspected to be explosives. He was subsequently handed over to the Airport Police Command for further investigation.<br /><br />“The Managing Director, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, in reaction, commended the security personnel for their vigilance and prompt arrest of the suspect,” Atobatele said in a statement.<br /><br />The suspect who wore brown shorts and a white T-shirt was prevented from speaking to reporters about his mission to the airport.<br /><br />But another policeman told THISDAY that the suspect was not willing to talk initially, having concealed his age but later said that his father was from Kano while his mother was from Cameroun and that he lived in Nasarawa quarters in Kano.<br /><br />Yet, another senior security official with one of the aviation agencies told THISDAY that enquiries had revealed that the suspect was from Niger Republic, arrived Lagos on Sunday and was asking people for the location of the airport before he was arrested.<br /><br />The official alleged that the suspect was on a mission and was sent by somebody, dismissing the initial statement from the police that he was a lunatic.<br /><br />“I don’t think that the suspect is a lunatic. If the police say that he is a lunatic let them prove that he is one.<br /><br />“From my own assessment, the suspect was on a mission; he was sent by somebody, but the police have not given us more information. I went to see him and the young man spoke both in English and in Hausa. The police said they should be given time to investigate the suspected devices, so let me give them time,” the official said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, suspected Boko Haram gunmen have killed 10 people who had fled their homes to avoid the incessant attacks by the insurgents, reported AFP yesterday.<br /><br />The villagers who were running from death inadvertently ran into death when they encountered the insurgents in a nearby village in Borno State.<br /><br />Like drunken murderers, the insurgents opened fire on them killing all 10, witnesses said yesterday.<br /><br />Residents of Krenuwa village had fled to nearby communities after Boko Haram members raided their community last month killing seven people.<br /><br />The people were further terrified when they saw the extremists raze a military camp, police station and several homes.<br /><br />About a dozen militants stormed the villages of Durwa and Maforo in the Marte district on Sunday, where some of the villagers were seeking refuge.<br /><br />“They came on motorcycles and gathered people before singling out their victims who moved in from Krenuwa after it was attacked”, said Usman Ari, a Durwa resident.<br /><br />“They shot six of them dead and slaughtered four,” said Ari, who fled to the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, some 100 kilometres away after the attack on the community.<br /><br />After the attack in Durwa, the suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed nearby Maforo and killed four, said Hassan Goni, another Durwa resident, who also fled to Maiduguri.<br /><br />“We are afraid they are going to come back for more attacks which is why we left,” he added.<br /><br />After the attack on Krenuwa village, a counter-offensive by soldiers killed five insurgents and captured another five.<br /><br />Krenuwa resident, Abba Kolomi, said Boko Haram had also killed six people from the village who sought refuge across the border in Chad.<br /><br />The Marte district was one of the areas where Boko Haram chased out the government last year, forcing President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in the region and a military offensive to crush the uprising.<br /><br />Although a scorched-earth military response reclaimed the territory, deadly Boko Haram raids on towns and villages in the area have continued unabated.<br /><br />Culled from <a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/boko-haram-suspect-we-were-sent-to-bomb-lagos-airport/186724/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Thisday</a></span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div> </div>

We Were Sent to Bomb Lagos Airport (NAMA) – Boko Haram Suspect

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div id="articleIconLinksContainer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 52px; margin: 10px 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"> <h1 style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" x-created-in="cc"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moment 35 Afghan Sikhs were freed from 'metal coffin': Screaming stowaways are helped by police who are now hunting international network of people smugglers who brought them to Britain</span></span></h1> <ul class="article-summary news mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">International manhunt continues for traffickers who crammed 35 immigrants into container bound for Port of Tilbury</span></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">Disturbing footage showed migrants crawling helplessly on the floor, while harrowing screams echo around the docks </span></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">13 children, including a baby, and adults up to the age of 72 - including a man in his 40s who died - were among group</span></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police have begun to question some of the immigrants - Belgian officials are 'very hopeful' they can track down driver </b></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officers have said it would have been 'impossible' for the group to have been loaded into the container at Zeebrugge </b></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Spokesman Peter De Waele said each container is captured on camera and the seals are under strict security controls</b></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Essex Police have confirmed all of those inside the unit were Sikhs from Afghanistan - four remain in hospital</b></li> </ul> </div> <div id="articleIconLinksContainer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 52px; margin: 10px 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"> <br /></div> <div id="articleIconLinksContainer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 52px; margin: 10px 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"> <br /></div> <div id="articleIconLinksContainer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 52px; margin: 10px 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"> <br /></div> <div id="articleIconLinksContainer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 52px; margin: 10px 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"> <br /></div> <div id="articleIconLinksContainer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 52px; margin: 10px 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div id="articleIconLinksContainer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 52px; margin: 10px 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An international manhunt was continuing last night for the traffickers and lorry driver who tried to smuggle 35 desperate Afghan Sikhs into Britain in a shipping container that became a ‘metal coffin’.</span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Full details of the horrifying incident have emerged in a video of the moment 34 of the migrants – including 13 children – were rescued.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The footage shows them weak and confused after their wailing and banging alerted rescuers at the port of Tilbury, Essex, on Saturday morning.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They were pulled sobbing from the sealed container in which they had been left to suffocate, but not before one of the migrants died.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scroll down for video </span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div id="ext-gen189" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; 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Most of the survivors were discharged from hospitals yesterday and taken to a reception centre where they were questioned by police and Border Force officials through interpreters.</span></div> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727144/Tilbury-container-mystery-Belgian-police-comb-CCTV-track-driver-reveal-35-immigrants-Afghanistan-probably-inside-metal-coffin-reached-Zeebrugge.html#ixzz3AiwX97bA" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727144/Tilbury-container-mystery-Belgian-police-comb-CCTV-track-driver-reveal-35-immigrants-Afghanistan-probably-inside-metal-coffin-reached-Zeebrugge.html#ixzz3AiwX97bA</a><br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline" style="cursor: pointer; 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cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Migrants take four jobs for every one that goes to a Briton: Unemployment tumbles by 132,000 in three months</a>)</span></li> </ul> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Callous people-traffickers had crammed the migrants – all from Afghanistan’s beleaguered Sikh community – into the container packed with crates of cleaning chemicals and put it on a P&O cargo ferry from the Belgium port of Zeebrugge on Friday night before fleeing.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police have launched a murder inquiry and are working with Interpol in a bid to track down the gang.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officers in Belgium are studying CCTV images of the lorry in an attempt to find the driver to establish if he was involved in the operation or was unaware of his human cargo.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="In the disturbing footage, the immigrants - now confirmed as Afghan Sikhs - can be seen crawling helplessly around the floor, while harrowing screams echo around the dock" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="2" height="521" id="i-9f91788a6ebefa83" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2727144-2099528E00000578-243_964x521.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); 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padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the disturbing footage, the immigrants - now confirmed as Afghan Sikhs - can be seen crawling helplessly around the floor, while harrowing screams echo around the dock</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div class="floatRHS art-ins news" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 50px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <h3 class="wocc" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 5px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>ECHO OF TOMATO LORRY TRAGEDY</b></span></span></h3> <div class="ins cleared xolcc bdrcc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 170, 210); margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 4px;"> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This incident has chilling echoes of a tragedy 14 years ago in which 58 Chinese stowaways died on the way from Belgium to Britain. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Customs officers discovered the bodies of 54 men and four women in the back of a tomato lorry which arrived in Dover on June 18, 2000.  The migrants had suffocated after their air vent was closed. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Driver Perry Wacker was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter.</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Belgian police spokesman said it was impossible for the migrants to have climbed into the container while it was sitting in the port as it was there for only an hour and the area is covered extensively by CCTV.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘It was around 6pm so it wasn’t dark,’ he said. ‘We think that the possibility [is that] the victims were already on the container before it was put down in Zeebrugge.’ </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said investigators have been combing CCTV and are 'very hopeful' that they can track down the driver and company of the vehicle that deposited the container.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr De Waele added each container is captured on camera and their seals are subject to 'very strict' controls.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His officers were working closely with Essex police, he added, and he described tackling human trafficking as a 'priority' in Belgium.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One report claimed yesterday that the stowaways spent nine days locked inside before they were found. Police believe a second container with 12 people inside is still to be found, the report claimed.</span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727144/Tilbury-container-mystery-Belgian-police-comb-CCTV-track-driver-reveal-35-immigrants-Afghanistan-probably-inside-metal-coffin-reached-Zeebrugge.html#ixzz3Aiw2UPbd" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727144/Tilbury-container-mystery-Belgian-police-comb-CCTV-track-driver-reveal-35-immigrants-Afghanistan-probably-inside-metal-coffin-reached-Zeebrugge.html#ixzz3Aiw2UPbd</a><br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@MailOnline on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DailyMail on Facebook</a></span><br /> <br /> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Essex police have confirmed the group included nine men and eight women aged between 18 and 72, as well as 13 children, aged between one and 12 years old.</span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Thirty of those found in the container have been released from local hospitals while four of the remaining victims continue to be treated at South Hospital. They are expected to be discharged by tomorrow" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="5" height="519" id="i-e546d58a65e1f183" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2727144-2099528800000578-234_964x519.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="964" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+11</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thirty of those found in the container have been released from local hospitals while four of the remaining victims continue to be treated at South Hospital. They are expected to be discharged by tomorrow</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zeebrugge has become a popular port for people smugglers because of its size and regular cargo ferry crossings to Britain.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The number of ‘clandestine illegal entry attempts’ by migrants trying to get to the UK via ports in Belgium and France increased last year to 18,000 from about 11,000 the year before, according UK Border Agency figures.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Tilbury container had been loaded from a lorry on to P&O’s Norstream ferry at Zeebrugge on Friday at 9.20pm. The ship arrived in Essex at around 6am on Saturday.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The alarm was raised some half an hour later when the desperate pleas for help were heard. An immediate search was ordered of the other 50 containers on the ferry in case any more migrants were on board.</span></div> <div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Dock workers made the shocking discovery at 6.37am on Saturday morning after they heard 'screaming and banging' coming from inside one of the ship's containers  " class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="6" height="644" id="i-cf775d85ff570f7b" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/1408279623663_wps_5_tilbury_grasphic_2_jpg.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="962" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+11</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dock workers made the shocking discovery at 6.37am on Saturday morning after they heard 'screaming and banging' coming from inside one of the ship's containers  </span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Superintendent Trevor Roe, of Essex Police, said: ‘We have had a good deal of help from partners within the local Sikh community in the Tilbury area to ensure that these poor people, who would have been through a horrific ordeal, are supported in terms of their religious and clothing needs.’ </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stephen Metcalfe, Conservative MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock, said: ‘The fact that so many people appear to have travelled so far and are so desperate to get into the UK – either on their own or being trafficked – is really sad.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Migrants in France and Belgium typically pay gangs about £1,500 each to be smuggled into Britain.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They have often travelled from their home countries by land via Turkey before being herded into UK-bound containers.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Alternatively, some are flown to Moscow on fake visas before being driven across Eastern Europe.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Supt Roe added: 'Now they are well enough, our officers and colleagues from the Border Force will be speaking to them via interpreters so we can piece together what happened and how they came to be in the container.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We now understand that they are from Afghanistan and are of the Sikh faith. Members of the Sikh community in Thurrock, Essex, are helping support the victims alongside the Red Cross.'</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thirty people had been released from local hospitals by last night to a reception centre at the Port of Tilbury. 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margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">AFGHAN SIKHS: THE COMMUNITY DISPLACED BY CONFLICT  </span></span></h3> <div class="ins cleared xolcc bdrcc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 170, 210); margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 4px;"> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sikhs are a tiny minority in Afghanistan with only 3,000 members of the community in a population of 31 million.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most of them are said to have migrated to other countries including India, Canada, Germany and Britain.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their mass exodus began when the mujahideen came to power in 1992, following the Soviet withdrawal from the country and the collapse of the communist Najibullah regime.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Until the civil war, they, along with Hindus and Jews, controlled money markets in major towns including Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But when the conflict began, gurudwaras around the country were destroyed and many were forced to flee.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the Taliban ruled the country in 2001, the Sikhs were forced to wear yellow tags, and the women were made to wear veils.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2009, a spokesman for the Hindu-Sikh Society in Afghanistan, Daya Singh Anjaa, told RFI (Radio France Internationale) that the group are now impoverished and are struggling to find a place in Afghan society.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is a community of Afghan Sikhs in London who maintain a gurudwara in Southall.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Source: Radio France Internationale</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Two police officers stand next to an ambulance at the gates of Tilbury Docks yesterday morning after dock workers made the shocking discovery " class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="8" height="655" id="i-999b44017b29f48c" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/1408279623675_wps_6_An_ambulance_van_drives_i.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="962" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+11</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two police officers stand next to an ambulance at the gates of Tilbury Docks yesterday morning after dock workers made the shocking discovery </span></div> </div> <div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="An ambulance enters the Essex port following the incident. The stowaways were treated for severe dehydration and hypothermia after they were found " class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="9" height="673" id="i-65d8bd9965654f66" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/1408279689360_wps_9_London_News_Pictures_16_0.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="962" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+11</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An ambulance enters the Essex port following the incident. The stowaways were treated for severe dehydration and hypothermia after they were found </span></div> </div> <div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="The A&E department of Basildon University Hospital in Essex was closed off as a 'decontamination area' as the suspected immigrants were treated " class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="10" height="652" id="i-39bc8a99fb9d8f" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/1408279759147_wps_11_16_August_2014_nLocation_.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="962" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+11</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The A&E department of Basildon University Hospital in Essex was closed off as a 'decontamination area' as the suspected immigrants were treated </span></div> </div> </div>

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