By Rahmi Gunduz
CALAIS, France (AA) - Over 1,000 people were removed early Tuesday from the camp known as the Jungle in France's northern city of Calais, the interior minister said.
"Nearly 800 of the 1,056 people have been transferred to refugee centers," Bernard Cazeneuve told the French parliament Tuesday.
Some 2,318 migrants had left the camp Monday, according to French daily Le Figaro citing Cazeneuve.
Asylum seekers in the camp were hoping to cross the English Channel and reach the U.K., but the British government said it was funding a new four-meter-high barrier that it hoped would stop them from trying.
Construction began last month on the concrete wall that will extend for a single kilometer alongside the motorway to the Calais port where ferries carrying trucks depart day and night for the U.K.
French President Francois Hollande had pledged to demolish the camp, which had been home to thousands of migrants, before the end of 2016.