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Eurotunnel services delayed after migrant break-in | Eurotunnel services delayed after migrant break-in |
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Eurotunnel and Eurostar passenger and freight services have resumed with delays after 120 migrants broke into the Calais terminal overnight. | |
Trains were running through just one of the two tunnels between Folkestone and Calais after fences were breached. | |
Trains stopped from 23:30 BST on Friday after staff were shoved and stones thrown when an organised group of 200 migrants tried to enter the terminal. | |
Security staff were overwhelmed by the "number and aggression" of the group. | |
A Eurotunnel spokesman said: "Services were suspended because of the very large, determined and organised group of migrants who burst through the fence and made their way to the terminal." | |
He said people had gone to the end of new security fencing, installed during the summer months, and broken through older fences. | |
Police were waiting at the tunnel to round up those who reached it, he said. | |
One Eurotunnel employee and two police officers were injured. | One Eurotunnel employee and two police officers were injured. |
Services were suspended for safety reasons while French police and British authorities removed people from the area. | Services were suspended for safety reasons while French police and British authorities removed people from the area. |
On Saturday morning, security checks for people and for damage to rails and equipment were being carried out on the second of the two Channel Tunnels which carry freight and passenger services. | |
Delays were set to continue until Eurotunnel freight and passenger and Eurostar passenger services could use both tunnels. | |
Eurotunnel said it would take time for services to return to the normal schedule. | |
A man died on Wednesday near the tunnel entrance in Calais - the 13th migrant to die trying to reach the UK since late June and the fourth to have died in September. | A man died on Wednesday near the tunnel entrance in Calais - the 13th migrant to die trying to reach the UK since late June and the fourth to have died in September. |
He was the fourth person to have died in similar circumstances in September. | He was the fourth person to have died in similar circumstances in September. |
The situation in Calais is part of a wider migrant crisis across Europe, with huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean. | The situation in Calais is part of a wider migrant crisis across Europe, with huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean. |
Extra security, including fencing, paid for by the UK, is being put in place, aimed at making it harder for migrants to get onto the platforms and trains. | |
Migrant crisis | |
Read more: Why is there a crisis in Calais? | |
Have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your experiences. | Have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your experiences. |
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