A 16-year-old immigrant from northern Africa was found riding on the top of a container lorry travelling on the A-7 motorway last week. The Guardia Civil headquarters in Algeciras notified officers further up the coast, who tracked down the vehicle in Mijas and got the driver to pull onto a service road at El Chaparral, where the minor was brought down from the top of the truck uninjured, and taken into custody.