Gardaí find five people, including girl aged three, in shipping container in Wexford

A three-year-old girl has been found in the back of a lorry in New Ross, Co Wexford.

The girl was found in the lorry at O’Leary International in Marshmeadows with three men and one woman on Sunday. All of the occupants of the container are from the Middle East. They told immigration officers they are Kurdish.

Wexford chief superintendent John Roche said the people with the child, all aged in their mid to late 20s, were found on Sunday at 6pm having travelled from Cherbourg on the Oscar Wilde ferry the previous day into Rosslare Europort.