6 women are rescued from a refrigerated truck in France after making distress call to a BBC reporter

vivadanang, 9 months ago

Heard this story last night, from the moment they called the Beeb till they were rescued was two hours as their air supply waned. Yikes.

Hirom, 9 months ago

The article doesn’t mention air supply issue. But it says the women had no health problem.

The truck was just 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) inside, said Francart, Villefranche-sur-Saône’s prosecutor. The women were all wearing thick coats and had no health problems, she said.

It sounds like they called for help because they realized the truck was going in the wrong direction, not so much because of health concerns.

vivadanang, 9 months ago

I noted it because it wasn’t mentioned in the article, but in the bbc interview with the victim on the radio.