Calais jungle team start demolition

DEMOLITION of the Jungle camp in Calais began with heavy duty machinery being used to tear down the ramshackle buildings.

A bulldozer was seen yesterday crushing the structures and lifting debris into a skip.

Workers in orange jumpsuits and white helmets helped by dumping the pallets, fabric and plastics which once housed migrants into the industrial container.

Earlier, scuffles broke out in the camp less than an hour after French authorities began a second round of processing refugees and migrants for relocation to other parts of the country.

Some 16 buses took 656 migrants to six regions in France, the French Interior ministry said, while 139 minors were also processed.

Since Monday, more than 3,000 migrants and refugees have passed through the registration centre.

A further 85 buses are still expected and the operation will last at least a week.