Eurotunnel services suspended as migrants storm Channel Tunnel

One Eurotunnel employee and two police officers were injured.

Eurostar and vehicle ferry service were resuming progressively Saturday.

“Services will resume gradually and we will have a departure from the French side at around 10:00am”, she said.

A spokesman said: “It (Other OTC: ITGL – news) ‘s a massive invasion and intrusion by a very large and co-ordinated group of migrants”.

“They arrived together and in a well-organised manner broke through the fences and all clearly knew where they were going”.

Their effort was coordinated and highly organised, forcing the company to call for police reinforcements, he said.

“At around 12:30 am (2230 GMT on Friday), around 100 migrants forced a closure and the entry of security agents into the tunnel”, a Eurotunnel spokeswoman told AFP.

Extra security, including fencing, paid for by Britain, has been put in place, aimed at making it harder for migrants to get onto the platforms and trains.

It came after attempts to penetrate the sprawling Eurotunnel site spiked in August as migrants tried several times a night to outfox hopelessly outnumbered security officials and police. A spokesman said workers were hurled to the ground and had stones thrown at them. “The police have removed them and taken them into custody”.

The disruption was the latest in a series of incidents involving migrants who are camped around the northern French port of Calais in the hope of reaching Britain.

Last week, a migrant in his twenties died after being hit by a shuttle bus at the Eurotunnel site near Calais.