Bulldozers move in to clear Calais Jungle

● More than 3,000 migrants been registered since Monday

0 A police officer stands guard after migrants burn down a shelter in the Calais Jungle Workers have started bulldozing the Calais Jungle camp as thousands of migrants and refugees were taken by bus to their new homes.

Heavy duty machinery was brought in yesterday afternoon as the mass exodus of the camp continued into its second day.

A small yellow bulldozer could be seen crushing the structures and lifting debris into a large skip on the edge of the camp.

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

A group of migrants huddled together in silence as workers tore down a nearby blue and yellow patterned shelter which was decorated inside by blankets.

A world atlas lay abandoned on a battered brown chair 2ft away from the demolition work.

Dorothy Sang, working on the ground for Save the Children, said the camp was being made even more dangerous by demolition starting before everyone had left.

She said: “It is unacceptable that the demolition has just started while those children haven’t been put to a safe place or accounted for.

“We know from the last time the camp was demolished that this escalates very quickly.

“This is not a safe environment for children – particularly children on their own.”

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 transported 656 migrants to six regions in France on Tuesday morning, 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.

Elsewhere in the camp the once-bustling main thoroughfare was quiet, with most of the shops and restaurants abandoned.

The earlier spat is thought to have started as unaccompanied minors were being separated from the main queue and taken to the front.