Wednesday, September 30, 2015

A migrant dies in the tunnel under the English Channel website hit by a train – 20minutes.fr

Migrants along the tracks from the Eurotunnel Terminal, July 28, 2015 at Calais-Frethun – Philippe Huguen AFP

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A migrant died in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday hit by a rail shuttle, near the Channel Tunnel near Calais , did was learned from the prefecture.

This is the thirteenth migrant died since June 26 while trying to rally England, according to the official count. On Tuesday, a migrant Iraqi-born 20 year old was found dead, crushed by pallets in a truck near the port of Calais

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“At around 1 am, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, a migrant was found dead by an agent Security, he was hit by a freight shuttle “on the site of the Channel Tunnel, said the prefecture. The victim is a “man aged about twenty years Eritrean origin,” the source said.

There was “no impact on the operating cash flows of tunnel, “said in a Eurotunnel release that” deplores the accident which unfortunately confirms that any attempt to cross the Channel illegally entails considerable risks. “

According to the count of the prefecture, between 3000 and 3,500 migrants, mainly from East Africa, Afghanistan and Syria, are in the Calais harbor area hoping to reach England, which they consider an Eldorado. By counting the clandestine present in a Grande-Synthe camp, about forty km from Calais, about 4,000 migrants in the region.

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