Hundreds of migrants attempt to enter UK illegally

Several hundred migrants were escorted away from the terminal by French police on Wednesday night – the third night of large-scale attempts to storm the terminal.

The exodus at Calais was exacerbated this past weekend by striking workers who have blocked the port, and sometimes the Channel Tunnel, too in a protest over potential job cuts after Eurotunnel agreed to sell ferry service MyferryLink to Danish-owned DFDS Seaways.

A 16-year-old Egyptian migrant was electrocuted and suffered life-threatening injuries after he climbed onto the roof of a British-bound train on Wednesday at the Gare du Nord station in Paris, the France Info website reported.

The Sudanese man, aged between 25 and 30, is the ninth person to be killed at the tunnel since the start of June.

Many British officials have expressed growing alarm at what they see as a potential influx of foreigners, although it’s not clear how many people have successfully made the passage.

“It can get pretty disgusting”, she says, adding that many migrants now carry small bottles of saline solution in case teargas is used against them.

“I’m amazed that the French authorities have not done more”, Farage said, adding that Britain “should now consider calling in the army to help check vehicles for migrants” at the main Channel port of Dover.

A police officer said the number of migrants trying to enter Britain eased slightly overnight compared to earlier in the week, with about 800 migrants around the site and some 300 intercepted by police.

Britain’s ambassador to France, Peter Ricketts, tried to ease tensions, telling Europe 1 radio that Britain and France were working well together on the issue.

The French Minister of Interior repeated Eurotunnel’s version of, saying that about 2,000 migrants disrupted the tunnel – “the most important attempt over the past month and a half”.

France is boosting security around its entry to the tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, after thousands of migrants tried to make a desperate rush to Britain.

There were wildly conflicting totals of people involved Wednesday, ranging from 150 to as many as 1,200. Men and women, some hiding their faces beneath bandannas, walked single file to sneak over a bent fence along the train tracks leading to the tunnel and ultimately to England.

The British government has agreed to provide an extra $11 million in funds for measures to improve security at Calais.

“The French police need to show zero tolerance and end the daily onslaught of thousands of people trying to board the freight trains”.

David Cameron has been criticised for describing migrants as a “swarm” trying to get into Britain.

“First of all I would like you to ask yourself about the human resources you are planning on dedicating to secure the site”, Cazeneuve said in the letter, noting that the company has slashed its security staff by two thirds since 2002. “I am not going to England for the money”.

Speaking in Singapore, Cameron announced that Home Secretary Theresa May would chair a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee to discuss the issue.