Four shot in Calais as hundreds riot in migrant gang war

FOUR migrants were shot during a gang war involving hundreds of Afghans and Eritreans in Calais.

Another nine are said have suffered serious wounds as a twohour fight broke out among men armed with guns and iron bars.

One fight started as migrants queued for food handouts south of the port. A second then broke out at an industrial site around three miles away.

One of the four with gunshot wounds is in a critical condition. Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart reacted with fury to the incidents, calling the violence ‘was absolutely unacceptable’. She added: ‘These were turf wars.’

Calais’ notorious Jungle camp was demolished in 2016, but hundreds of migrants remain in the port city hoping to make it to Britain. Those left, most of them young Africans and Afghan men, have been living rough in the woods and there are regular confrontations between groups of different nationalities. Five people were shot in a fight between rival Afghan groups last November.