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Bangladeshi employees of a Korean construction firm wash themselves using buckets of water at a building site where they have set up camp after fleeing across the border from Libya. Their company, Hanil, has left them at the border without making any arrangements for them and most haven't received any wages for several months. Thousands of people, 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.