At least five people killed in shooting at French migrant camp near Dunkirk with ‘gunman turning himself in’
AT least five people including two security guards have reportedly been killed in a shooting spree at a French migrant camp near Dunkirk.
The horror shooting took place in Loon-Plage before a person claiming to be the gunman turned himself in, French media reports.
Special forces police were first called to the camp on Saturday afternoon after reports of "a lone gunman killing people", said an investigating source.
They identified the self-confessed killer as Paul D., a 22-year-old from Dunkirk who claimed to be a "former colleague" of the dead security guards.
Paul D. is said to have gone on a shooting spree around an area full of asylum seekers sleeping rough.
Four of his victims died around a makeshift camp at Loon-Plage where small boats packed with migrants set off for to the UK from the English Channel beach there.
One other victim, reportedly a transport manager, was shot dead before the attack.
All those killed received "precise shots to the head, suggesting the killer had a lot of experience with firearms", said an investigating source.
The source added: "Four people were shot dead around the camp at Mardyck – two security guards and two migrants.
"The gunman is also said to have shot a transport manager earlier in the afternoon."
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A source told Sky News that cops confirmed "multiple murders were committed".
The killer is first thought to have opened fire in Wormhout, some 15 miles inland from Dunkirk.
His car pulled up outside a farmhouse, and then he went inside and shot a 29-year-old public transport manager dead in front of his family, according to an investigating source.
He then drove towards Loon-Plage in his car, where he reportedly shot two Iraqi Kurd migrants in the head.
Two security guards working for Eamus Cork Security, a company that helps safeguard Dunkirk port, were then shot dead in the same way.
They had been travelling in their own vehicle, but the alleged killer asked them to get out, before shooting them.
The man then drove some eight miles to the coastal town of Ghyvelde, and turned himself in to the cops, before confessing to all five murders.
Confirming the arrest, a spokesman for Ghyvelde gendarmes said the man "was not known to police", suggesting he had no previous criminal record.
He now remains in custody and faces murder charges, it is understood.
Four weapons were found in Paul D.’s car, and he was the legal owner of a Smith and Wesson 44 Remington rifle, said a spokesperson for the French Police.
David Calcoen, the Mayor of Wormhout, said: ‘I am stunned by what has happened. ‘I cannot understand how this could have happened.’
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There are frequent reports of gun and knife violence by people smugglers around the migrant camps in northern France.