Calais migrants: 'Jungle' camp demolition set to begin

Thousands of migrants are still at the camp in Calais

French authorities are expected to begin dismantling the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais in the coming hours, as more residents prepare to board coaches bound for other areas of France.

More than 2,300 people were bussed away to reception centres on Monday. The clearance process has been peaceful so far, but there are concerns some migrants will refuse to leave because they still want to get to the UK.


Some 7,000-8,000 people have been living there in squalid conditions. The BBC's Simon Jones, at the camp, says that hundreds more migrants had joined queues early on Tuesday to get on coaches out of the camp.

Our correspondent was jostled as police tried to keep order in the lines. He says that officials will move into the camp later to begin clearing its infrastructure.

But they are expected to do so by hand, as sending in bulldozers at this point would send the wrong message to migrants they want to convince to get on buses voluntarily.