Two men wounded in French migrant camp

Two migrants were wounded in a shooting after a row in a migrant camp in the northern French port of Dunkirk, several sources said yesterday, reports AFP.
A 30-year-old Iraqi migrant received a gunshot wound in the groin area and a 25-year-old man whose nationality was unknown was wounded in the side in the incident in the Grande-Synthe camp on Monday, a police source said. Both men required hospital treatment but neither had life-threatening injuries.
“A police investigation is under way to establish the precise circumstances of this row and who fired the gun,” a spokesman for the local authorities said. The shooting followed an incident in which two migrants suffered minor knife wounds in the camp on Sunday.
The Grande-Synthe camp was built by the Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) charity and the local authorities in accordance with international humanitarian norms and currently holds nearly 800 people.

 

Two men wounded in French migrant camp

Two migrants were wounded in a shooting after a row in a migrant camp in the northern French port of Dunkirk, several sources said yesterday, reports AFP. A 30-year-old Iraqi migrant received a gunshot wound in the groin area and a 25-year-old man whose nationality was unknown was wounded in the side in the incident in the Grande-Synthe camp on Monday, a police source said. Both men required hospital treatment but neither had life-threatening injuries. A police investigation is under way to establish the precise circumstances of this row and who fired the gun, a spokesman for the local authorities said. The shooting followed an incident in which two migrants suffered minor knife wounds in the camp on Sunday. The Grande-Synthe camp was built by the Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) charity and the local authorities in accordance with international humanitarian norms and currently holds nearly 800 people.