Men in boots and baseball caps climb on top of a vast metal structure to drape over thick white tarpaulin, erecting a rudimentary shelter to temporarily house men and women exactly like themselves.

Other images shared by the bureau appear to show bodies, some covered in blue tarpaulin, lying on the ground.

"I came across a taxi driver carrying a tarpaulin from his boot. And I saw body parts," he said.

“Those are nice,” said Mara as she pulled a tarpaulin over the baggage and tied it down.

British officials put out the word that the huge, strangely shaped objects, kept under wraps beneath tarpaulins, were special water carriers—mobile tanks.