Migrants at the Calais "Jungle" protesting on October 13. Photo: Denis Charlet/AFPAFP · 16 Oct 2016, 09:02Published: 16 Oct 2016 09:02 GMT+02:00A first group of unaccompanied migrant children left the Calais "Jungle" camp for Britain on Saturday, days after a French minister said the UK had a "moral duty" to take them in. The departure comes after French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Monday said he was asking "Britain to assume its moral duty" by accepting unaccompanied children with family in the UK. The British Red Cross has said 178 unaccompanied children in the camp have already been identified as having the right to claim asylum in Britain due to their family links. "We are well aware that the 'Jungle' is a place where living conditions are undignified and inhuman and that cannot go on," Tercero said.

Source: The Local October 16, 2016 07:07 UTC