Two members a group of unaccompanied minors (R and 2nd R) from the Jungle migrant camp in Calais stand outside an immigration centre after being processed after their arrival in Britain, in Croydon, south London, October 18, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
CALAIS, France (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Volunteers in the "Jungle" migrant camp near the French port of Calais were frantically trying on Friday to identify children with a chance of gaining asylum in Britain as the countdown to the camp's demolition began.
The first busload of lone child migrants arrived in Britain on Monday from the camp as the UK government started to act on its commitment to take in unaccompanied migrant children before the camp is destroyed.
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