LONDON, Nov 1: The Border Force immigration centre in the southern English
port of Dover was attacked with petrol bombs on Sunday. The bombs were attached
with fireworks. One person reportedly suffered injuries from the fire.
The attacker, 66, hailed from distant High Wycombe, an English town northwest
of London, Kent police said. He came in a vehicle and threw three petrol bombs.
One of them did not go off. Later he was found dead at a petrol station nearby.
The man reportedly killed himself.
The fire was put out by the immigration staff.
Daily Mail reported that the man was not local and had travelled more than
100 miles to the coastal town to carry out the act. The police said they are
not treating the bombing as a terrorist attack.
A Reuters photographer at the scene had reported the incident to the police.
1000 migrants cross Channel in a day
About 1,000 migrants crossed the world's busiest shipping lane, the English
Channel, in 24 small boats and landed at Dover on Saturday, the Ministry of
Defence said. During October over 6,000 people crossed over. Nearly 40,000 have
arrived in the UK this year undertaking the treacherous trip. Saturday's crossings
were mostly from France. The migrant processing centre in Manston in Kent is
overcrowded. The Home Office said the biggest group crossing the channel were
Albanians.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said she wants to use the stalled scheme
of sending migrants to Rwanda. She also wants to use the Nationality and Borders
Bill to prosecute illegal migrants.
Braverman has faced criticism for the language she used in Parliament on Monday
when she said that she was working to stop the "invasion on our southern coast".
