CALAIS, France, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Officials will begin dismantling a large refugee camp in north France next week due to poor conditions there that have led many to call it "the jungle."
The camp, located in the port city of Calais, is currently home to about 7,000 migrants from the Middle East, who have fled their homelands due to ongoing fighting. Its unsanitary and crowded environment has become a symbol of the European migrant crisis.