Migrants in Brussels end mass hunger strike for legal status after 60 days

Supporters applaud as hundreds of undocumented people leave church where they had been camped

Hundreds of undocumented migrants in Brussels have ended a hunger strike after 60 days, giving up the demand for a collective regularisation of their status.

A representative for the group announced on Wednesday that people camped at the Church of St John the Baptist at the Beguinage in central Brussels were ending their refusal to eat or drink.