Two stowaway boys found dead at Heathrow

Two boys thought to be about 12 years old have been found dead in the undercarriage of a plane at Heathrow Airport.

Two boys thought to be about 12 years old have been found dead in the undercarriage of a plane at Heathrow Airport.

The children, who have yet to be identified, sneaked aboard a Ghana Airways flight from Accra and were dead when the DC-10 plane landed in Britain.

They were found by a ground engineer in a wheel compartment of the plane on Saturday.

A police source said: "They must have been absolutely desperate. It's horrific. They were very young and they mustn't have realised how cold it would get".