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Seven refugees nearly drown in melted chocolate while trying to smuggle into UK

A Syrian refugee has told of the terrifying moment he was trapped inside a tank of melted chocolate that nearly killed him.

In his 18th attempt to escape a down-and-out refugee camp in Calais by jumping on a lorry bound for the UK, the unnamed man was trapped into the over-heated vat of chocolate for more than two hours.

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