THIRTEEN men have been arrested after a group of people were seen jumping out of a refrigerated lorry.

Police were called to Midland Chilled Foods, in Kings Park Road, on the Houndmills Industrial Estate in Basingstoke at 3.09pm on Monday.

A group of people had been seen jumping from the back of a refrigerated articulated lorry, and running off towards Winklebury.

Officers attended and arrested 13 men, believed to be from Iran, Iraq and Turkey, on suspicion of being in this country illegally.

They were all taken into custody and a referral has been made to the UK Border Agency.