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CALAIS was once again thrown into chaos as UK-bound lorries appeared to be held up by burning barricades erected by migrants.

Shocking video footage showed several lorries queuing up behind the roadblock on a highway into the French port.

France has already called in an extra 150 police to guard the port town.

The problem was a common theme last year as migrants attempted to board lorries heading for Britain.

But it was believed the barricades had been stopped when the Calais Jungle was razed to the ground at the end of last year.

Now, this latest footage posted to YouTube by a Polish trucker on Friday will once again raise serious questions about how the UK and France are dealing with the migrant crisis on their borders.

The exact date of the incident remains unclear.

The Sun reported last week how violence was on the increase in Calais as rival migrant gangs clashed in a desperate bid to reach the UK.

Groups of Eritrean and Ethiopian asylum seekers fought running battles in the French port town as a flaming barricade was set up on an approach road.

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One group erected the burning obstacle in a bid to stop lorries bound for Britain before boarding them.

Only seven months have passed since French authorities disbanded the Calais Jungle - a sprawling camp with up to 10,000 migrants.

Many of those were seeking asylum in the UK.

But fears are now growing the giant camp could return with at least 600 migrants now back around the Channel port.

The burning barricade was the first such incidence since the break up of the Jungle.

Before that, migrants had often created barriers in the roads around Calais before attempting to board lorries bound for Dover.

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Last week growing tensions spilled over when two East African gangs clashed.

One riot officer was injured trying to regain order, The Times reported.

A camp in nearby Grande-Synthe burned down following clashes between Sudanese and Afghan migrants in April.

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Calais migrants 'spark blazing roadblocks in bid to stop and jump on trucks bound for Britain' as violence returns ... - The Sun