Migrant dies as hundreds bid to enter Channel Tunnel
One migrant has died after hundreds tried to enter the Channel Tunnel in Calais, operator Eurotunnel said.
The latest incident comes after 2,000 migrants tried to gain entry to Eurotunnel’s French terminal on Monday night, causing chaos for cross-Channel travel.
The British government has agreed an extra £7m of funding for measures to improve security at Calais and the entrance to the Channel Tunnel.
The escalating crisis prompted British Prime Minister David Cameron to promise that his government “will do everything we can” to improve the situation.
A French spokeswoman for Eurotunnel said: “I can confirm that one migrant died last night after 1,500 tried to storm the Eurotunnel.”
The latest death comes as British Home Secretary Theresa May chairs a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergency committee about the crisis.
According to French media, the migrant is the eighth to be killed at the tunnel since the start of June, and is believed to be a Sudanese national aged in his late 20s.
It is thought that he was hit by a truck as he tried to climb over a shuttle.
