Six women rescued from back of lorry in France after texts to reporter

Women aiming to reach UK or Ireland realised lorry was heading in wrong direction and contacted BBC journalist

Six women have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in France after a panicked text message to a BBC reporter set off a frantic cross-border search.

The women - four Vietnamese nationals and two from Iraq - spent more than 10 hours in the cramped space, surrounded by boxes of bananas, in hopes of making it to the UK or Ireland, according to the BBC.