More than 1,600 child migrants moved out of Calais camp

French authorities have moved all unaccompanied children - 1,616 of them - out of Calais' sprawling migrant slum 'The Jungle'.

More than 1,600 child migrants moved out of Calais camp

French authorities have moved all unaccompanied children - 1,616 of them - out of Calais' sprawling migrant slum, taking them to special processing centres in one of the final steps to empty the notorious "Jungle" camp.

The underage migrants climbed into to 38 buses in a day-long operation that began just under a week after adult migrants were cleared out of the camp and sent to refugee centres around France.

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