A man has been found shot dead in a British tradesman’s van carrying ten illegal migrants at a French motorway rest stop.
The vehicle was found on Friday around 20 miles north of the city of Troyes, south-east of Paris, the local prosecutor’s office said.
The rest stop is around 200 miles away from the Channel crossing.
The body of a 47-year-old man was discovered at around 5am local time with a ‘gunshot wound to his head’ on a seat inside the van.
The van had UK licence plates but the nationality of the driver was still unknown, Troyes’s prosecutor Isabelle Verissimo said.
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