Sudanese man walks to Britain via tunnel
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A Sudanese migrant walked the 50-kilometer Channel Tunnel from France, dodging high-speed trains and evading security guards before he was stopped just short of the British entrance and arrested, police said.
Thousands of people from Africa and the Middle East have been trying to flee makeshift camps in the French port of Calais and enter Britain by jumping onto lorries or hiding on trains, disrupting cross-channel freight and passenger traffic.
British police said Abdul Rahman Haroun, 40, was found close to the British entrance to the tunnel near Folkestone in southeast England on Tuesday evening.
He has been charged with “causing an obstruction to an engine or carriageway using the railway,” they said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said more fencing, guards and sniffer dogs were being sent to beef up security at the terminal in Calais.
“We are making progress but there is a lot more to do, including better security in the tunnel itself,” Cameron told Sky News yesterday.
“We will oversee these improvements and they will take place in the coming weeks and days.”
The United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR said conditions at Calais were “appalling” but the “mere 3,000” people there were manageable, and more security wouldn’t help.
Eurotunnel has launched an investigation into the tunnel incident, which it said had caused “delays for customers and significant economic loss.”
“A criminal intrusion into the Channel Tunnel is an extremely rare incident. It is both illegal and highly dangerous,” a spokesman said in a statement.
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