At least four people dead after gunman opens fire at migrant camp in France

At least four people are understood to have died after a gunman opened fire at a migrant camp in northern France.

Police have confirmed “multiple murders” were committed at the camp near Dunkirk – while Sky News reports that the incident took place in nearby Loon-Plage.

A fifth person, said to be a transport manager, was killed outside the migrant camp earlier in the afternoon.

Armed police had been called to the camp on the town’s Mardyck Road on Saturday afternoon to reports of a “lone gunman killing people”, one investigating source said, according to the Mail.

The source added: “Four people were shot dead around the camp at Mardyck – two security guards and two migrants.”

The shooter’s first victim is said to have been in his 30s, and was “killed in front of his relatives, in what looked like a targeted assassination”, the source said.

The gunman and his victims’ identities have not immediately been released, Mayor of Loon-Plage Eric Rommel said.

A 22-year-old male French national claiming to be the gunman then handed himself into police, according to French outlet CNEWS.

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The broadcaster, citing a source close to the case, reports that the victims are “two Kurdish migrants and two port security agents”.

Authorities found three more weapons in the man’s car, French media reported.

The local prosecutor’s office has not yet commented on the shootings.

Refugee charity and campaign group Care4Calais says the majority of migrants in the area are “Kurdish or Afghan” in origin.

It comes just hours after GB News exclusively revealed that more than 35,000 small boat migrants have crossed the English Channel so far this year.

After more than a week had passed without any small boat crossings due to bad weather in the Channel, more than 1,150 migrants reached UK waters in the last three days alone.

It takes the provisional number assessed by GB News to 35,130 since the beginning of the year.