Teenage Immigrant Trying to Enter Spain Hides Inside Spare Tyre (Photo)

 

A teenage immigrant from an African country almost killed himself out of desperation to enter Spain. According to the Spanish Police, he curled up inside a lorry's spare wheel. The teenage stowaway hid inside half of a spare wheel in the false bottom of the vehicle.

 

He was adversely affected due to lack of air in the cramped space, petrol fumes and the heatwave where temperatures have hit 40 degrees. It took the intelligence of the custom officers at Aduana de Beni-Enzar in Melilla at the border to spot him.

 

The stowaway pictured above was however not alone. Officers found two other immigrants in the same vehicle, both hidden in cramped spaces in a hidden compartment under the floor of the lorry.

According to reports, they are all of sub-Saharan nationality aged between 18 and 25. All three had to be given first-aid at the scene as officers feared they could die.

Police said the teenager hidden in the half wheel could hardly breathe and was unable to stand up. The lorry driver, a 39-year-old Spanish man, was later arrested for an offence against the rights of foreign citizens.

 

The desperation to migrate into European countries seem to be the order of the day as African are leaving their countries for greener pastures.

In the same vein, one boy was recently discovered hidden in a suitcase whilst others have unbelievably climbed into car engines or hidden under lorry axles.