Dramatic new images show two immigrants entering the UK clinging to the top of a freight lorry last night as hundreds of migrants once against tried to storm the fences at the French port of Calais.
The migrants were pictured at the port of Folkestone in Kent in the first photographic evidence that some are penetrating France’s overstretched security and making it across the Channel.
The Daily Mail says that French police used batons and tear gas in a vain attempt to subdue the migrants. Extra sniffer dogs and fencing have been sent, but Britain is now considering sending troops across to deal with the growing crisis.
Two migrants cling to the roof of a freight truck as it leaves the Eurotunnel terminal on July 31, 2015 in Folkestone, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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Gendarmes driving vans escort migrants out of the vicinity of the Eurotunnel terminal early on July 31, 2015 in Coquelles, near Calais, northern France. (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
French gendarmes accompany two migrants through a field near the Eurotunnel site (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
Trucks line up on the M20 during Operation Stack on July 30, 2015 near Ashford, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Migrants walk down a slope beside a road leading to the Eurotunnel terminal (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
A man runs away from Gendarmerie (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
People gather on a mound near the Eurotunnel terminal (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
Migrants gather near the Eurotunnel terminal (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
People help a man climb a fence (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
Migrants help a man squeeze through a gap in a fence (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
Gendarmerie attempt to prevent people from entering the Eurotunnel terminal (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
People help a young man squeeze through a gap in a fence (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
French gendarmes attempt to block a migrant after he entered the Eurotunnel site (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
French gendarmes take up positions to block migrants who have entered the Eurotunnel site (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants walk on the tracks in the Eurotunnel site in Frethun near Calais (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants walk on the tracks in the Eurotunnel site (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants stand on a bridge near the Eurotunnel site (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
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