It claimed 2,000 attempts were made to get to the tunnel on Monday, with a further 1,500 on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.
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Prime Minister David Cameron is facing calls from senior police chiefs to allow the army to intervene in the ongoing migrant crisis in Calais, after mass attempts to storm the Channel Tunnel resulted in one fatality. French authorities said he was a Sudanese refugee, probably in his late 20s, who was caught under and crushed by a truck getting off the cross-Channel ferry.
He said: “The Committee warned before the summer recess that the situation in Calais would descend into a summer crisis”.
“This is the last chance that we have”.
“We just have to take the loss on the chin and get on with it”.
“Drivers are having to move to alternative ports, it has been frustrating and very costly”, the Moira haulage company owner said.
“It’s a shame, I like the job and like travelling, but every time you leave France to get back to the UK it is really nasty. We are going to try again tonight because last night there were no trains”.
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.
Britain has already spent €4.7 million on barriers aimed at securing access to the terminal and the platforms, which should be ready in August, Eurotunnel said.
The firm added it had suspended ticket sales for those who had not made a reservation.
Migrants walk along railway tracks at the Eurotunnel terminal on July 28, 2015, in Calais-Frethun, France.
May, the home secretary, said Britain was pressing for a bigger fence around the Calais railhead to stop people reaching the French end of the tunnel.
In a July 23 letter sent by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to Eurotunnel boss Jacques Gounon and seen by Reuters, Cazeneuve accused Eurotunnel of not doing enough to ensure Tunnel security “given the worsening situation”.
The crisis at Calais has had a knock-on effect on road traffic on the British side and caused huge delays for freight trucks as well as holidaymakers trying to reach the continent.
Sailings from the Port of Dover continued, with P&O Ferries running full services to Calais and DFDS operating a full schedule to Dunkirk and Calais.
Different groups from Africa, Asia and Arab countries gathered according to their nationality.
“There’s also the issue that the industry will be looking for more cold storage because they can’t export their seafood they will have to freeze it and store it until they can get the markets open again”. The attacks are overwhelming French security police. French officials, meanwhile, are concerned about the roughly 3,000 migrants in encampments called “the jungle” by the inhabitants of the largely lawless sites scattered haphazardly in the area.
Asked if he would use the word “swarm“, Mr Farage told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘No.
Mohammad Al-Mohammad, 26, from Aleppo, Syria, said he graduated in English literature from the city’s university before the civil war left it in ruins.
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He died on Tuesday from his injuries, said a local prosecutor.
