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MYSTERY SURROUNDS 'ASYLUM SEEKER' ROAD DEATH

The body of a man found lying on a main road by a passing motorist, next to another man who was seriously injured, was discovered on the London-bound carriageway of the A20 at Sellindge on Sunday morning (8 October). 

It is not known how long the men had been lying there. Paramedics took the injured man who suffered broken bones to hospital in Ashford. 

His condition is said to be "serious but stable". The other man was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Police spokesman, Jon Green said: “We think the two men were run over by a lorry driver while he was reversing his vehicle but that he may not have even been aware that the men were there.

“Police would like to speak to the driver of the lorry, which is described as an off-white coloured articulated trailer and cab, and also the driver of a gold or silver coloured saloon car, which drove past shortly after the incident."

But in a report on today's Mirror.co.uk website, they claim the men were Iraqi asylum seekers who had fallen from a lorry.