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Mass exodus: Thousands of migrants have left the Calais ‘Jungle’




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Thousands of migrants have packed their bags as the first day of the Calais Jungle closing beings.

The mass exodus has already seen some 2,318 migrants exit the ‘jungle’ and have started to make their way to the France and many are hopeful of ending up in the United kingdom.

48 buses have been sent to regions all over France except Paris and Corsica.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: “1,918 adults left Calais on board 45 buses to go to 80 reception and orientation centres situated in 11 regions of France and the minors have also been “taken to provisional reception centres” within the camp ahead of their transfer elsewhere. 

Organisers are trying to gather queues of up to three hundred people each and then placing them on six coaches.

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