A number of migrants misplaced their lives in a single day Saturday to Sunday whereas making an attempt to cross the English Channel, French authorities reported. The precise variety of casualties has not been specified.
The damaging journey throughout the Channel, undertaken by many searching for to achieve the UK from France, has claimed quite a few lives lately.
Maritime authorities reported that quite a few makes an attempt by migrants to make the damaging crossing in small boats have been made in current days, with 200 folks being rescued inside a 24-hour interval spanning Friday and Saturday alone.
Earlier this month, not less than 12 migrants died off the northern French coast when their boat, carrying dozens of individuals, capsized. This was the deadliest such catastrophe this 12 months, bringing the entire variety of migrant deaths throughout crossings to 25, a major improve from the 12 recorded in 2023.
The French and British governments have been working for years to curb the circulate of migrants who pay smugglers substantial sums of cash to make the passage from France to England in small boats. Based on British officers, greater than 22,000 migrants have efficiently crossed the Channel and arrived in England for the reason that starting of this 12 months
(It is a growing story)
The damaging journey throughout the Channel, undertaken by many searching for to achieve the UK from France, has claimed quite a few lives lately.
Maritime authorities reported that quite a few makes an attempt by migrants to make the damaging crossing in small boats have been made in current days, with 200 folks being rescued inside a 24-hour interval spanning Friday and Saturday alone.
Earlier this month, not less than 12 migrants died off the northern French coast when their boat, carrying dozens of individuals, capsized. This was the deadliest such catastrophe this 12 months, bringing the entire variety of migrant deaths throughout crossings to 25, a major improve from the 12 recorded in 2023.
The French and British governments have been working for years to curb the circulate of migrants who pay smugglers substantial sums of cash to make the passage from France to England in small boats. Based on British officers, greater than 22,000 migrants have efficiently crossed the Channel and arrived in England for the reason that starting of this 12 months
(It is a growing story)