Five people, including a girl, died this morning shortly after leaving the French coast during an attempt to irregularly cross the English Channel by boat towards England.
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An overloaded boat with more than 110 people on board suffered a stoppage in its engine and began to take on water after passing with difficulty a sandbank, just a few hundred meters from the French coast, the Maritime Prefecture of the English Channel and the North Sea.
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Finally, the two castaways and three unconscious people were disembarked on Wimereux beach to receive medical assistance, in addition to the family member of one of them.
However, These people “unfortunately could not be revived,” the prefecture said in the statement..
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Another 49 people were rescued from the boat by French naval forces while 58 decided to continue and continue their route before British units took charge of them.
The Maritime Prefecture reported that “The particularly high number of people packed into this boat confirms the especially dangerous methods of the traffickers”who “do not hesitate” to overload the boats that make the crossing “in order to achieve even more benefits.”
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A total of 29,437 people arrived on British soil after irregularly crossing the English Channel last year, 36% less than the record of 45,774 in 2022, according to official British figures.
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