April 11 (UPI) -- A fire destroyed an encampment which housed about 1,500 migrants at the Grande-Synthe Dunkirk camp in northern France, camp officials said.
At least 10 people were injured on Monday when the fire tore through about 300 closely packed huts housing mostly Afghan and Kurdish migrants. At least half the camp was destroyed, and at least 165 people were evacuated, authorities said. It began hours after French police were called to the camp to intervene is clashes between the two ethnic groups; six people sustained knife injuries in the fighting.