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.