🚨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 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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