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Police have advised residents in the surrounding area to stay at home, and warned people not to pick up hitchhikers, local media report.

"Even with the best of intentions, unwanted hitchhikers are getting through customs import checks all the time," he said.

In 1967, an unlikely American duo of Charlie Cushman, a hitchhiker, and Herbert “Skip” Cole, a postgraduate student, were sent around the country by the antiquities department, to gather up some of the heritage.

She later realised her father's kindness to strangers, always offering lifts to hitchhikers or people waiting at railway stations was an "obsession with making sure people got home".

As the firefighters drove back to the station, hundreds of hitchhikers rode along as well: A swarm of bees latched on to the windshield and the doors of the fire truck.