{"id":38381,"date":"2024-07-12T09:06:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T09:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/four-migrants-drown-in-english-channel-crossing-attempt\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T09:06:43","slug":"four-migrants-drown-in-english-channel-crossing-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/four-migrants-drown-in-english-channel-crossing-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Four migrants drown in English Channel crossing attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By\u00a0Thomas Mackintosh,\u00a0<\/span>BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Four migrants have died after a boat capsized during an attempt to cross the English Channel, according to the French coastguard.<\/p>\n

Overnight, a navy patrol boat reported that migrants had fallen into the sea off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France.<\/p>\n

Four people found “unconscious” could not be saved, police added, while 63 were rescued.<\/p>\n

A helicopter and fishing vessel also helped in the rescue effort.<\/p>\n

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described the incident as “truly awful”. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The coastguard said several people fell into the sea after part of their boat “deflated”.<\/p>\n

The initial alert was raised at 04:30 local time (03:30 BST), with a helicopter arriving around 30 minutes later. It found several people “drifting in the water while others were still clinging to the broken rubber dingy”.<\/p>\n

14 people were rescued by the fishing vessel and 49 others by the French navy ship, the coastguard said.<\/p>\n

“All the shipwrecked individuals were then brought ashore in Boulogne and taken care of by the emergency services on land.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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UK Home Office figures show 484 migrants crossed the English Channel on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n

On 18 June, 882 people crossed the Channel on 15 small boats \u2013 a new record for the year so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Home Office data, those arrivals were the highest in a single day since October 2022.<\/p>\n

Over 13,000 people have crossed the Channel so far this year. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reacting to the deaths, the home secretary said: “Criminal gangs are making vast profit from putting lives at risk. <\/p>\n

“We are accelerating action with international partners to pursue and bring down dangerous smuggler gangs.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the new Labour government set out plans to tackle the small boat crisis.<\/p>\n

Ms Cooper said she would appoint a leader of the UK’s new Border Security Command within weeks.<\/p>\n

The government hopes the new body will reduce small boat crossings<\/a> in the English Channel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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