The Belgian police busted an Indian gang involved in smuggling people from India to Britain.

An Iraqi Kurdish gang was also busted, reports quoting the Brussels prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.

The police arrested 19 people and picked up 50 illegal migrants.

The illegal migrants had paid up to Rs 1,40,000 to the gang which allegedly used Belgium as a stop.

The modus operandi, the prosecutor's office said, was to hand over the immigrants to the Kurdish gang which put them in lorries on their way to the UK.

Sources were quoted as saying that at least a dozen illegal immigrants were smuggled into Britain every night.