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  • Massive blaze destroys migrant camp in northern France

    04/10/2017 11:30:42 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 17 replies
    TheLocal.fr ^ | 11 April 2017 08:11 CEST+02:00 | AFP
    A huge fire, apparently started deliberately, tore through the Grande-Synthe migrant camp near the northern French city of Dunkirk late Monday, reducing it to “a heap of ashes”, the regional chief said. Firefighters said at least 10 people had been injured in the blaze at the camp, which was home to some 1,500 people, mostly Iraqi Kurds, living in closely packed wooden huts. “There is nothing left but a heap of ashes,” Michel Lalande, prefect of France’s Nord region, told reporters at the scene as firefighters continued to battle the flames which were visible from several kilometers away. “It will...