A HAMPSHIRE office worker couldn't believe it when she spotted a pair of legs dangling from beneath an articulated lorry as it drove past her.
Kelly-Ann Fletcher was even more shocked when two men jumped out the trailer, approached her and asked: "What town are we in? Where are we?"
Kelly-Ann, 28, a branch administrator for DHL in Electron Way on the Chandler's Ford industrial estate, said: "I was walking along Electron Way and a lorry drove past me. I glanced at it and thought it was foreign and for some reason I just happened to look back.
"I saw a pair of legs dangling out of curtain sides, looked back again and saw the legs jump out onto the road and then another man jumped out."
Kelly-Ann carried on walking but felt uneasy about heading down a passageway and decided to return to work.
She said: "I turned round and they were right in my face and asking me what town they were in and where they were.
"I thought they were illegal immigrants straight away."
One of the men was wearing a dark green hooded jacket with the hood pulled up round his head and had bad scratches or cuts on his nose. The other was described by Miss Fletcher as looking "very sheepish."
She added: "I was quite freaked out. It was really quite strange. You don't think of this happening in Chandler's Ford - Dover maybe, but not in Chandler's Ford."
Kelly-Ann rang the police when she got back to work fearing that the two men may have been carrying a knife to cut the lorry curtains.
"I knew they were heading in the direction of Valley Park and anything could happen to anyone, you just don't know."
The lorry, believed to be Polish, was still at the scene more than 20 hours after the incident.
Eastleigh police confirmed two Iranian nationals, aged 19 and 18, had been detained on suspicion of being illegal immigrants.
Acting Chief Insp Karen Scipio said: "We handed them over to immigration officials in Southampton."
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