Tourists Shocked As Migrants Climb Into Lorry

Tourists on a coach were shocked to see several migrants climbing into the back of a lorry at Calais bound for the UK.

The incident was caught on video and one person was heard to gasp as around six men managed to get on board the lorry, which was queuing to board a ferry at the French port.

A passenger filmed as a large number of migrants surrounded the vehicle which was directly in front of the coach.

A tour guide tried to reassure the passengers, saying: "Don't panic guys. We've locked all the doors. Try not to panic guys."

One of the shocked passengers asks: "This is hardcore man. Do they not police this?"

Some of the migrants apparently got very close to the coach. A passenger said: "Shivers we nearly ran over someone, eh", adding "holey moley".

The other migrants who crowded around the lorry then slammed the back doors shut after appearing to realise they were unable to climb on board.

A tour guide tried to reassure the shocked passengers on the coach

Mr Adams wrote on their blog: "Returning from Europe we encountered a group of refugees who’ve set up camp just outside the Calais port.

"The refugees, who are desperate to cross the channel into the UK for better work opportunities and safety as they escape their own countries,  began rioting by setting up road blocks and began climbing into the hollows of trucks, breaking windows & opening side panels looking for supplies."

He added: "Behind our coach many of the migrants began to climb over the car of a solo elderly woman which would have been very traumatic."

He said his wife "had to stop filming when one of the refugees sees her filming and threatens to throw a rock through the windscreen"

He also wrote: "Moments after the video ends the migrants began to flee as French police arrived in riot gear, searching trucks and directing the refugees back towards their camp."

Around 2,500 migrants, mostly from Sudan, Eritrea and Syria, live in a makeshift tent village in Calais known as "the jungle".

Mr Adams said despite being shocked about the incident he also felt sympathy for the migrants.

He wrote: "Though we were initially shocked & alarmed, as you can hear in the video because this happening is so foreign to us, our heart truly does go out to the people of the Calais migrant camp."

Mr Adams went on: "We were really lucky that our driver had locked our luggage compartments underneath the bus (or our belongings would be long gone) & that they did not figure out the emergency open switch on the back door which would have allowed them to board.

"Generally the refugee camps tend to be harmless but on this day they group seemed to have an extra level of desperation."