'Illegal' immigrant dies, tied to bottom of lorry

ALGECIRAS (Agencies) A 24 year old man was removed from underneath a lorry to which he had been tied in an attempt to enter Europe illegally. The fire brigade was called to the port's lorry park at Isla Verde on Monday night. The man, with initials D.S. obtained from an out-of-date work permit he had on him, was unconscious when the medical services arrived, so he was taken to the Punta de Europa Hospital in Algeciras, where he was diagnosed with a serious case of hypothermia. The lorry entered Spain from Tangier. This is not an unusual way for people trying to reach Europe to attempt it. (Prospero note: one more such tragedy born of poverty and corruption in their country of origin. The inverted commas on the word 'illegal' in the headline are just my way of pointing out what I once saw as graphitti on a wall: "No human being is illegal.")