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Police called to Cobbs Wood Industrial Estate, in Ashford, after a group of migrants were heard hiding inside a lorry

A group of people have been filmed getting out of the back of a lorry in Ashford.

The video, posted on Facebook, shows the suspected illegal immigrants leaving a lorry on the Cobbs Wood Industrial Estate.

Police say the migrants were discovered after voices were heard coming from inside a vehicle which had just pulled into the estate.

The group were filmed exiting the lorry along the Cobbs Wood Industrial Estate
The group were filmed exiting the lorry along the Cobbs Wood Industrial Estate

Officers attended the scene at around 10am on Saturday, and assisted three men and a woman from the lorry.

They say they have now been "handed to immigration".

A spokesman said: "Police were called at 10am after voices were heard from the back of a lorry that had just pulled in.

Police say they were "handed to immigration"
Police say they were "handed to immigration"

"Three men and a woman were inside the lorry.

Video: Migrants are seen getting out of a lorry in Ashford

"They were taken to Medway Police Station and have been handed to immigration."

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