Truck drivers arrested following Dover death
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• Dover Port police have launched an investigation after the body of a suspected illegal immigrant was found on the ramp of a ferry on Monday.
The corpse was discovered as the P&O Stena ferry Pride of Burgundy, which had sailed from Calais, lowered its upper ramp at Dover's Eastern Docks just after 10:00hrs, Two hours later Kent police arrested a Portuguese truck driver and his co-driver 40 miles north-west of Dover on the M26.
A Kent police spokesman says: "We are still trying to establish who this man was; we are looking at the possibility that there was
an accident with a lorry.
The two Portuguese men were detained and questioned about the man's death, says the spokesman.
A Dover Port spokesman says it is likely that the man died as trucks were disembarking from the ferry. "There has not been an incident like this at the port before," he adds.
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