Man dies as 1500 migrants try to storm France-UK tunnel

A Sudanese man died on Wednesday as migrants desperate to enter Britain from France stormed the Channel Tunnel entrance and British ministers and security chiefs held an emergency meeting to try to tackle the growing crisis.

Meanwhile, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that an extra 120 police officers would be dispatched to Calais to help secure the Eurotunnel site.

Opposition leaders accused the premier of employing dehumanizing language about people who have gathered near Calais in northern France in the hope of getting to Britain illegally through the Channel Tunnel.

“Everything happened overnight, and at 6:00 am (0400 GMT), the police still had quite a lot of work to do”, said the police source of the last attempts, adding that “between 500 and 1,000 migrants” were still around the tunnel site.

The British and French governments on Wednesday vowed to tighten security around the French port of Calais following the ninth death of a migrant in the past five weeks as hundreds stormed the Channel Tunnel. The man, who was between 25 to 30 years old, was crushed to death by a lorry early on Wednesday. French police have said he may have been hit by a truck that was leaving one of the vehicle transports in the tunnel.

The attempted crossings have seriously disrupted commerce and tourism through the tunnel, with freight and passenger trains and trucks facing long lines and delays.

The U.K.is seen as an El Dorado for migrants, said Emmanuel Agrius, the deputy mayor of Calais.

Nine people have died trying since June – dozens of others have come close.

The organization is now calling on the French state to provide better accommodation, sanitation and faster asylum claims for the camp’s migrants.

Northern Irish lorry drivers have told of how chaos at Calais is hurting their business – and putting them in real danger.

The man vaulted between two trains in an attempt to enter the protected zone for Eurostar departures, but touched a live overhead wire.

He made it across the Mediterranean on his fifth attempt – spending the last two hours swimming ashore.

Speaking on his tour of South East Asia, Mr Cameron said: “Look this is very testing”. I want to be free life.

“The Eurotunnel group also has to assume its responsibilities, of course, notably regarding the security inside its own entity”.

“The continuous pressure exerted every night is above and beyond that which a concessionaire can reasonably handle and requires a constructive and appropriate response from the (British and French) governments”, Eurotunnel said in a statement.

The British government has agreed to provide an extra 7 million pounds ($11 million) of funding for measures to improve security at Calais.

An official count early this month showed about 3,000 migrants – mainly from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Afghanistan – camped in Calais, waiting for the right moment to try for a dash for Britain. She said Britain and France would work together to return people to their home countries and crack down on smugglers.

“Concerns have been raised with us, particularly by the fish processing sector, and the Scottish government has mobilised our resilience team to monitor the situation, investigate what practical steps can be taken to support those affected and, of course, resolve the situation for Scottish producers”, Swinney said. Hundreds of lorries are parked along the motorway leading to the port of Dover and the British tunnel terminal in what police have called “Operation Stack”.