Some Indians are among a dozen suspected illegal immigrants employed with a food firm and arrested this week from East Midlands in the UK.

Sources said that the workers — both men and women — were employed at Walkers Snack Foods in the Middlemarch Business Park. Officers from the Border and Immigration Agency found the immigrants, who are from Ethiopia, Ghana, India and S Africa. “It is suspected that they had used fake documents to get packing jobs at the company,” the sources said. They were held while attending a training session at a location away from the factory.

The 12  detained face removal from the country or prosecution if they are found to be in possession of forged passports. Gail Adams, Border and Immigration Agency Regional director for Midlands and East of England, said: “The   Agency is determined to put a stop to illegal working.”