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		</div><p>A teenage refugee has been killed trying to cross the Channel Tunnel into Britain, officials said.</p>
<p>The boy, who was between 15 and 17 years old and believed to be from Eritrea or Sudan in East Africa, was killed by a freight train as he tried to cross the tracks.</p>
<p>He was found unconscious by the side of the railway and declared dead at the scene on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>He is believed to be the 12th person killed in or around the Channel Tunnel entrance in Calais since the refugee crisis erupted earlier this year.</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Pas de Calais Prefecture, the local administration, said: “At around 2am a freight shuttle struck a migrant who was crossing the tracks on the site of the Channel Tunnel.</p>
<p>“When emergency services arrived they found the migrant dead. He was a minor, aged between 15 and 17, and could be Eritrean or Sudanese.</p>
<p>“An investigation is under way.”</p>
<p>A Eurotunnel spokesman said: “This is a regrettable incident, a very sad incident. But unfortunately it does demonstrate again the risks that are associated with trying to cross to the UK illegally.”</p>
<p>According to La Voix du Nord newspaper, the boy is the 12th person to have died in or around the Channel Tunnel in France since June.</p>
<p>Earlier this month a man, believed to be Syrian, was electrocuted as he tried to climb aboard a shuttle train, while others have been crushed by lorries or killed falling from trains.</p>
<p>Of these 12, seven were from East Africa, two were from Pakistan and one was from Syria. The nationalities of the other two are not known.</p>
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