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Desperate migrants try to cross Channel to Britain from Calais

Thu, Jul 30, 2015 - 5:50 AM

Migrants who successfully crossed the Eurotunnel terminal on Tuesday walking on the side of the railroad in Frethun, northern France, as they try to board a shuttle freight train to Britain.

PHOTO: AFP

Paris

UNDER cover of darkness, group after group of migrants made their way to the Eurotunnel compound in Calais, France, overnight on Monday, climbing over fences and other barriers in a desperate bid to board freight trains bound for Britain.

By 6:30am on Tuesday, the authorities...

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