Two Sudanese migrants have been shot dead and five other asylum seekers have been wounded after a migrant camp in northern France witnessed a spate of violent incidents.
Utopia 56, an organisation that works with migrants across the region, claimed the camp has experienced growing tensions that have "intensified in the last two or three weeks".
French police confirmed that a 24-year-old Sudanese migrant was shot and killed at a migrant camp at Loon Plage, after another migrant of the same nationality was killed near a food distribution point.
All five people left injured from the two attacks were also Sudanese, local news outlets have revealed.
Two Sudanese migrants were shot dead, and five others were wounded in several incidents that occurred over the weekend at a migrant camp near the town of Dunkirk in northern France, according to French police
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Two injured victims are reported to be a woman and a two-year-old child.
French authorities have already arrested two men in connection with the shooting on Saturday.
The public prosecutor's office confirmed a 29-year-old, who claimed to be from Iraq, and a 16-year-old, who said he was from Afghanistan, were arrested.
Around 1,500 people, including women and children, are present at the makeshift camp at Loon Plage, according to police.
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A migrant was killed near a food distribution point
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Many migrants with ambitions of reaching Britain stay in camps such as Loon-Plage before gathering on the shores of northern France.
Both Britain and France have pledged to crackdown on people smugglers, with Sir Keir Starmer repeatedly vowing to "smash the gangs" in a bid to slash illegal migration.
However, reacting to the violence in northern France, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage described the migrant "gangs" as "dangerous".
He said: "For several consecutive days there have been shootings and hammer attacks at migrant camps in northern France. Two dead and several wounded. The gangs are getting more dangerous by the day."
A South Sudanese man pauses in a migrant camp on May 30, 2025, in Loon-Plage
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The number of migrants who have entered the UK illegally by crossing the Channel is over 16,700 since the start of the year, which is up 42 per cent on 2024.
In the same time period, at least 15 migrants have died at sea while trying to reach Britain's shores, French authorities confirmed.
On Friday, GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White shared new footage from the coast of France showing police intercepting vessels of Britain-bound illegal migrants.
He said this is the "first evidence" of French authorities intervening in migrant boats crossing the Channel.
Footage has emerged of French police intercepting a small boat of illegal migrants
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However, despite their efforts, the UK saw another big day of migrants piling across the Channel from France, with 919 migrants making the illegal crossing in 14 small boats.
Mark said: "We've had boatload after boatload of migrants, but take a look at this. This, we think, is the first evidence of French police officers pushing out into the English Channel. They are walking out there and trying to deal with migrants who are using a small boat, getting out onto that small boat."
He added: "It's hard to be 100 per cent sure, because it may have been used as a tactic before, but we've been waiting for what the British Government have promised for some time.
"That the French were going to be more robust in the way they were dealing with these small boat migrants out in the English Channel on the beaches of France. It looks as though that's what we're seeing."
A Home Office spokesman said: "The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay and we will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice.
"That is why this Government has put together a serious plan to take down these networks at every stage.
"Through international intelligence sharing under our Border Security Command, enhanced enforcement operations in Northern France and tougher legislation in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, we are strengthening international partnerships and boosting our ability to identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal gangs whilst strengthening the security of our borders."
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