A 20-year-old Iraqi man has been crushed to death in a lorry in Calais while apparently trying to smuggle himself into Kent.

French authorities say he was discovered in the back of an HGV at around 7am today.

Two other members of his family were also found on board, but were unhurt.

It comes days after a teenager, thought to be from east Africa, was killed by a freight train near the Channel Tunnel entrance in Calais.

Days earlier a man was electrocuted at the entrance to the tunnel.