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Over 50 Child Refugees Arrive in UK Following Calais Camp Closure

© AP Photo / Jerome DelayAfghan children ride their bicycles in a makeshift migrants camp near Calais, France, Thursday Feb. 25, 2016
Afghan children ride their bicycles in a makeshift migrants camp near Calais, France, Thursday Feb. 25, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Over 50 children refugees arrived in the United Kingdom from the refugee camp near the French city of Calais under the UK government promise to assist unaccompanied minors, local media reported.

Migrants stand under makeshift shelters in the northern area of the camp called the Jungle in Calais, France, September 6, 2016 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The group of 54 girls, mostly Eritrean, arrived in Croydon, south London, under the government pledge to assist the children refugees, the Guardian newspaper reported.

The initiative to grant government support to unaccompanied children refugees arriving to the UK was promoted by Lord Dubs, the Labour peer and former child refugee.

According to the newspaper, only those children refugees who have relatives in the United Kingdom entered the country. Since Monday, the United Kingdom has been accepting minors from the Calais Camp to reunite with their relatives.

Thousands of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa are living in the Calais camp, – the so-called Jungle – notorious for its horrible living conditions, located not far from the Channel Tunnel, in hopes of reaching the United Kingdom. The remaining part of the camp is to be closed before the end of October, after the main section was dismantled in March. The demolition set to begin on October 24.

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