Hundreds of migrants are now camped at a makeshift site near the port of Calais in northern France in a desperate bid to reach the UK.
The camp, which has been dubbed “The Jungle”, sprawls over 50 acres and sits next to one of the main highways on the route to the freight terminal for the Channel Tunnel. The Daily Mail says it includes tents, makeshift houses, shops and even a school and church.
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Men buy from a shop run by Afghanis (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
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A man peals potatoes (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
Gamal and Sabry from Sudan build a wooden structure (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
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A man talks on a telephone (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
A pair of trousers are laid out to dry on bushes (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
A woman enters the site of a church (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
A migrant offers prayers at the makeshift church (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman carries a child as they walk towards the Eurotunnel terminal (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
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Migrants who managed to get past roadblocks set up by French gendarmes inside the Eurotunnel site run to the boarding platform to attempt to reach Britain (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
A migrant who managed to get past roadblocks set up by French gendarmes inside the Eurotunnel site, tries to find a way to cross the fences topped with barbed wire which protect the boarding platform. (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
A French gendarme films the migrants who try to enter inside the Eurotunnel site (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
Men gather beside a security fence beside train tracks near the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles in the early morning hours on August 1, 2015 (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
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