"Around 1 a.m., a 20-year-old migrant of Eritrean origin was hit by a freight train at the maintenance terminal in the French part of the Eurotunnel site," said Steve Barbet, head of communications for France`s Nord Pas de Calais.
"Emergency response units arrived at 1:15 a.m. and found his body."
The Channel Tunnel runs 50 kilometers (31 miles) from a point near Calais, in northern France, to Folkestone in southeastern England.
Migrant found dead inside Eurotunnel as crisis escalates
01 October 2015
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A freight train killed an Eritrean man in the French part of the Eurotunnel on Wednesday, authorities said, as Europe struggles with its largest migration since the end of World War II.
