LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Armed with sledgehammers, French workers on Tuesday began demolishing the "Jungle" camp outside the port town of Calais, which has been home to thousands of migrants, many of them seeking entry to Britain.
Police equipped with water canon stood guard as hundreds of migrants - some of whom have lived in the scrubland on the northern French coast for months or years - waited for busses to take them for resettlement across France.
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