SEVEN suspected illegal immigrants were arrested after jumping out of a lorry.

The men and women were seen to escape from the lorry on Wakefield Road in Scissett, near the Riverside Business Park, at 1.30pm yesterday.

They quickly split up and fled, but were rounded up and arrested by police.

They were taken to Huddersfield and Dewsbury police stations and held overnight.

Immigration officials were due to question them today.

They are believed to have come from an African country.