Smugglers hide migrants in old Nazi bunkers before channel crossing | World News [Video]

Smuggling gangs are hiding migrants in former Nazi bunkers before sending them on the perilous journey across the English Channel to the UK.

Dozens of desperate asylum seekers, mainly Kurds, were photographed at the derelict World War II forts on the French north coast this week.

The concrete structures were built by Hitler’s forces to keep the Allies from invading German-occupied France in 1944.

According to a resident who spoke to the Mirror, smugglers are using them as a ‘final staging post for the migrants to rest and prepare for the final stage of their journey.’

They said: ‘Large numbers of them arrive each day and stay huddled together inside them out of sight through the night before leaving early to get on dinghies.

Police are aware of what’s happening, they added, but don’t have the manpower to stop it.

The bunkers are hidden among the dunes less than a mile from the coast on the outskirts …