French police break up camp where Channel tragedy victims stayed

Shelters outside Dunkirk used by the 27 who died at sea dismantled in latest attempt to disperse refugees

Armed French police have broken up a makeshift migrant camp outside Dunkirk where the 27 people who died at sea last week stayed before they drowned in the Channel.

The basic site, by a canal outside the Grand-Smythe suburb, had no toilets or running water, but was nevertheless used by several hundred people, mostly Kurds from Iraq or Iran, hoping to travel illegally to the UK.