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Bangladeshi employees of a Korean construction firm, carry their luggage to a building site at Ra's Ajdir near Ben Gaurdane on the Tunisian - Libyan border, where they hope to spend the night. Their company, Hanil, left them at the border without making any arrangements for them and most of them haven't received their wages for several months. Thousands of people, of many nationalities but mostly Egyptian migrant workers, are still waiting to be admitted into Tunisia, resulting in chaos at the border. In recent days an estimated 70,000 refugees have crossed into Tunisia fleeing the hostilities in Libya and raising the spectre of a humanitarian crisis at the border.