🚨BREAKING: A native Frenchman has driven a car into a crowd of migrants and shot dead four of them in a migrant camp in northern France. This is according to initial reports....At least four people dead after gunman opens fire at migrant camp in France

 At least four people are understood to have died after a gunman opened fire at a migrant camp in northern France.

Police have confirmed "multiple murders" were committed at the camp near Dunkirk - while Sky News reports that the incident took place in nearby Loon-Plage.

A fifth person, said to be a transport manager, was killed outside the migrant camp earlier in the afternoon.Armed police had been called to the camp on the town's Mardyck Road on Saturday afternoon to reports of a "lone gunman killing people", one investigating source said, according to the Mail.

The shooting happened in and around Dunkirk - one of the key sites from where migrants depart to Britain

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The source added: "Four people were shot dead around the camp at Mardyck - two security guards and two migrants."

The shooter's first victim is said to have been in his 30s, and was "killed in front of his relatives, in what looked like a targeted assassination", the source said.

The gunman and his victims' identities have not immediately been released, Mayor of Loon-Plage Eric Rommel said.

A 22-year-old male French national claiming to be the gunman then handed himself into police, according to French outlet CNEWS.

PICTURED: Migrant tents in Loon-Plage in 2021 (file photo)

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A 22-year-old male French national claiming to be the gunman then handed himself into police (file photo)

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