Desperate refugee kids left wandering lost around Calais jungle and forced to sleep by side of road after migrant camp is wiped out
The lads from Eritrea, some as young as 13, wait outside the demolished camp in the hope of being picked up a bus
A GROUP of unaccompanied migrant children sleep rough outside the demolished Calais Jungle.
British charity Help Refugees said police had arrested some minors on Thursday while dozens wander around the area with nowhere to go.
Dorothy Sang, a worker with the Save the Children charity, said children as young as 13 were sleeping rough on the streets.
She said: "Lots of children are sleeping outside.
“We had a group of Eritrean boys, 13 and 14 years old, last night, who slept outside.
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"Other children fled. They lost faith in the system."
Charities said hundreds of migrants might have fled the camp rather than take part in a programme to rehouse them in towns across the country.
One of the boys pictured, named Abdelhamid, 17, from Eritrea, is hoping an official bus will come to take him away to be processed after being forced out of the makeshift camp.
A Reuters reporter on Thursday saw dozens of migrants, including children, still in the western part of the slum, where the dismantling had not yet started.
The overcrowded shanty town came to symbolise Europe's difficulty in dealing with record inflows of migrants from impoverished and war torn regions of Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Other disturbing pictures show migrants waiting outside a processing centre following the destruction of the camp.
While more than 6,000 refugees were successfully cleared from the area, a frustrated minority set fire to part of the slum.
President Francois Hollande decided under local pressure to close the Jungle and relocate its inhabitants in towns and villages throughout the country pending examination of their cases.
"By next Monday, the camp will be no more. It is already gone but the (demolition) job will be finished by Monday evening," local government prefect Fabienne Buccio told reporters as earthmovers flattened the camp, where the evacuation started on Monday.
She said more than 6,000 migrants had signed up to be taken to other parts of the country as planned, and that matched the number of people who had been living there.
One high-ranking local official, speaking on condition that he not be identified, said the camp was not totally empty.
"There was panic over the unaccompanied minors, we knew we'd be back today to try to sort this out," he told Reuters.
"And I think some migrants are still going to remain inside the camp in coming days."
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