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A British journalism student has been gang-raped while reporting on a notorious illegal immigrants camp in Calais.

Police said the rape was of a particularly ‘brutal nature’ and believe the woman, aged in her late 20s or early 30s, was attacked by a group of men on Tuesday night.

The camp, dubbed ‘The Jungle’, is used as a base for immigrants while they wait to cross into Britain and it’s believed the journalist was spending time with the immigrants for her story.

A police spokesman said: “She appeared to be working alone, which was clearly a very dangerous thing to do.

"We fear that the men she was reporting on attacked her."

More than 100 asylum seekers, many from the Middle East, the Balkans and eastern Europe, who were sleeping rough in the makeshift camp, have been rounded up by police.

One man said: "Yes, I saw a young journalist with a camera. Lots come this way. The word is that something happened to her in the woods."