Police have arrested 12 men on suspicion of immigration offences after reports of people in the back of a lorry.
Officers were called to Edinburgh Way, Harlow at about 22:15 GMT on Friday where they found 11 men and a teenage boy in the vehicle.
Essex Police said: “The men, and the driver of the lorry, were all arrested and our enquiries are ongoing.”
All the men were arrested on suspicion of immigration offences and taken into custody.
