Young refugee travels 400km clinging beneath Italian lorry

A young refugee has been rescued by Italian police after travelling 400 km while hanging from the undercarriage of a lorry.

Police stopped the vehicle, which was heading north on Italy's A1 motorway, on Monday afternoon, after receiving a series of phone calls from terrified motorists who had spotted the desperate man while driving and feared he could fall at any second.

Amid the heavy summertime traffic on the motorway, police managed to catch up with the lorry just outside Frosinone, Lazio. The truck, which was being driven by a foreign driver, was stopped and the refugee freed from a makeshift harness he had fashioned under the vehicle using two belts.

"By this point he was exhausted," the police said in a statement. "He was then taken to a hospital in Frosinone." Despite the ordeal, the refugee, who is thought to be in his early 20s, is in good health.

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