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Trucker injured when Calais migrants throw petrol bomb to stop him
A POLISH trucker was injured when migrants seeking to stop him for a ride to England threw a petrol bomb at him on the Calais ring road on the channel coast.
The man told the local paper, Nord Littoral, that migrants had surrounded his truck and began tapping on the cab to get him to stop and let them on.
But he kept going despite a barricade having been set up on the road.
"Several seconds later, I looked in the mirror and saw that the vehicle was alight from what I think was a Molotov cocktail," he told the newspaper.
Using an extinguisher, the driver succeeded in putting out the fire himself before firemen arrived.
However, he suffered injuries to his legs and hands and required hospital treatment as an outpatient.
A number of reports recently indicate that security for trucks approaching the port has deteriorated in recent weeks, with Lloyd's Loading List reporting last month that migrants in Calais had apparently resorted to throwing petrol bombs to slow and stop trucks on the ring road leading to the French channel port to gain access to road freight trailers.
The man told the local paper, Nord Littoral, that migrants had surrounded his truck and began tapping on the cab to get him to stop and let them on.
But he kept going despite a barricade having been set up on the road.
"Several seconds later, I looked in the mirror and saw that the vehicle was alight from what I think was a Molotov cocktail," he told the newspaper.
Using an extinguisher, the driver succeeded in putting out the fire himself before firemen arrived.
However, he suffered injuries to his legs and hands and required hospital treatment as an outpatient.
A number of reports recently indicate that security for trucks approaching the port has deteriorated in recent weeks, with Lloyd's Loading List reporting last month that migrants in Calais had apparently resorted to throwing petrol bombs to slow and stop trucks on the ring road leading to the French channel port to gain access to road freight trailers.
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