Police in Belgium say they have broken up a human-trafficking gang that was trying to smuggle hundreds of people from India to Britain.
Police arrested 15 suspected traffickers in raids in and around the Belgian capital, Brussels on Saturday.
Police say they discovered around 200 Indian nationals believed to have been on the last leg of a journey to Britain for which they had paid between $2000 and $5000.
The Belgian authorities said the raids followed a year long investigation and they believe they have arrested the brains behind a network of small groups which together smuggle thousands of Indian nationals into Europe each year.
It's thought the immigrants, mostly men between the ages of 15 and 35, had mainly travelled from the Punjab region of India via Moscow.
Their living conditions were poor with more than 20 people crammed into one small windowless room.
