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         More Than 2,000 Migrants Try to Enter Channel Tunnel in France

   by Reuters

   More than 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel in an
   attempt to reach Britain from France, French authorities said on
   Tuesday.

   Six migrants were injured in what was the biggest incursion effort in
   the last few weeks at the tunnel entrance near Calais, on the night
   between Monday and Tuesday, a local official said.

   "Some 2,100 of them entered the site overnight, 1,900 of them were
   quickly pushed back outside and 200 were arrested," the official told
   Reuters.

   Tunnel operator Eurotunnel confirmed the intrusion on Twitter, saying
   it had caused traffic delays.

   Such disruption has become common as some 5,000 migrants, mostly from
   Africa and the Middle East, have set up camp around the northern French
   port and regularly try to board trucks traveling by the rail tunnel or
   by ferry to Britain.
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