Two Iraqi migrants are critically ill in hospital after a shoot-out between rival people-smuggling gangs at a camp in Dunkirk.
Migrants and charity workers at the Grande Synthe camp said that fighting broke out during the weekend in a dispute over territory used by the gangs to launch small boats.
The camp, the largest in northern France, is controlled by Kurdish gangs. Migrants stay there until allocated space in a boat to cross the Channel.
A migrant, whom The Times met during a visit last month, said he saw one man with a pistol and another with a rifle during the fighting on Sunday. Several 9mm and 5.6mm shell casings were found at the scene. Gunshots were also heard on Friday.
The Dunkirk public
