One Dead As Migrants Try Rushing To England

Cameron highlighted that the French authorities have deployed an additional 120 police to the French port and the UK was investing in fencing and security measures too.

The Sudanese man, between 25 and 30 years old, was crushed under a truck as up to 1,500 migrants tried to force their way into the tunnel, which links France and Britain under the English Channel.

ONE man has died in a desperate attempt to reach England via the Channel Tunnel as overwhelmed authorities fought off hundreds of migrants, prompting France to beef up its police presence.

Eurotunnel officials said more than 37,000 such attempts by migrants had been blocked since January.

The man is actually the ninth to die while trying to clear the tunnel in just the last two months. “I know it’s unsafe but I’m trying”. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUENPHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images Migrants gather near the Eurotunnel terminal to try to climb in a shuttle heading to Great Britain, on July 28, 2015 in Frethun, northern France. They are there because they want to get to England, where they don’t need identity papers.

Cameron made the comments during a visit to Vietnam in response to questions about the crisis at Calais, where hundreds of people have repeatedly attempted to enter the tunnel and stow away on vehicles crossing to Britain.

In what appeared to be a new tactic to get to Britain, an Egyptian tried to jump from the roof of a train at Paris’s Gare du Nord train station onto the London-bound Eurostar and was severely electrocuted.

Emmanuel Agius, deputy mayor of Calais, said in an interview Wednesday that the city would like help from the United Nations to deal with the foreigners, and he called for a summit with the leaders of the U.K. and France to address the situation.

Speaking at London in lieu of the Calais Crisis, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, placed the blame on Eurotunnel for the surge of problems at the freight terminal, reports The Independent.

He told me he’d spent most of his adult life doing military service in the Ethiopian army, had spent 10 days drifting in the Mediterranean Sea, and had crossed six different European countries to get here. The website reported that he had been hit by a lorry. He also acknowledged the massive disruption in traffic because of the flood of migrants.

Trucks leaving Britain have been forced to wait hours, and vacationers have also faced significant delays after the surge in efforts by the migrants to cross the Channel, which Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said was “very concerning”. Of the 32 people on his boat only eight survived, he said.

Britain has agreed up to seven million pounds of extra funding to help increase security at the tunnel’s French terminal at Coquelles, officials said.

Following talks between Cazeneuve and British Home Secretary Theresa May on Tuesday, they promised to expand publicity drives in the migrants’ countries of origin to discourage people from seeking asylum in France and inform them about “the realities of life for illegal migrants in the UK”.