At least
five killed in shootings around French migrant camp
Man, 22,
hands himself in after one person shot in Wormhout, near Dunkirk, and four more
at Loon-Plage camp
Nadeem
Badshah
Sat 14 Dec
2024 23.40 CET
At least
five people have been killed in shootings in and around a migrant camp near the
northern French city of Dunkirk.
A
22-year-old man claiming to be the gunman handed himself to the nearby Ghyvelde
police station at 5pm local time on Saturday.
The alleged
perpetrator told police he killed a person, believed to be 29 years old, in the
French town of Wormhout and subsequently took the lives of four others at the
Loon-Plage refugee camp.
The four
victims at the camp were understood to be two security agents and two people
residing there, Reuters reported.
Authorities
found three more weapons in the suspect’s car, French media reported.
It was not
immediately clear what the motives were for the shootings at Wormhout and
Loon-Plage, located about six miles from the Channel.
According to
the charity Care4Calais, refugees have been camping in the area for years,
predominantly “Kurdish or Afghan and including many families with small
children”.
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