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France foils ‘1,000 bids’ to cross Channel

CALAIS, France: French police said they had prevented more than 1,000 desperate attempts by migrants to get into Britain via the Channel Tunnel on Friday, as London readied emergency talks on the crisis.“More than 1,000 attempts were thwarted last night, with around 30 arrests,” the source said, adding there were

By our correspondents
August 01, 2015
CALAIS, France: French police said they had prevented more than 1,000 desperate attempts by migrants to get into Britain via the Channel Tunnel on Friday, as London readied emergency talks on the crisis.
“More than 1,000 attempts were thwarted last night, with around 30 arrests,” the source said, adding there were no reports of migrants injured in their bid to enter the undersea tunnel linking France and Britain.