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Eurotunnel services resume after migrants storm platforms on French side
00:01, 19 October 2015
updated: 07:27, 19 October 2015
Eurotunnel services have started again after hundreds of migrants are said to have stormed the French tunnel.
There is said to have been an "intrusion" on the French platforms, which led to a complete halt to the service earlier.
Eurotunnel tweet just after 8.30am
Passenger and freight services are now running again, with a 30 minute delay on both.
Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said several hundred migrants entered the tunnel area in France overnight.
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