Two migrants have died trying to pass the English Channel in a petite boat.
The incident happened offshore between Calais and Dunkirk, in France, on Sunday morning, a French maritime official tbetter the BBC. Some 53 migrants were get backd.
In a split incident, cut offal people onboard another boat suffered petrol burns, according to French maritime authorities. More than 50 migrants were get backd from the second petite boat.
French officials shelp 25 migrants have died trying to pass the world’s busiest shipping lane this year.
The British Coastdefend validateed it had provided help to the French Coastdefend after sfinishing a search and get back unit and a UK Border Force vessel to help.
Several boats carrying migrants begined from beaches in northern France on Sunday after a period of triumphdy conditions.
Fine weather in the morning prompted cut offal groups to consent to the water.
Jacques Billant, prefect of the Pas-de-Calais region, shelp during a press conference on Sunday afternoon that authorities begined a huge get back operation when a vessel got into difficulty.
The Gris-Nez Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Centre (CROSS) findd the boat in an area where visibility had been shrinkd by fog.
A British Coastdefend vessel and cut offal vessels from the French authorities picked up the people onboard the boat.
There were 56 migrants on the boat. Two people were unconscious when crews get tod at the scene and postponecessitater died, while 54 were shieldedly brawt back to port in Calais, Mr Billant shelp.
A UK administerment spokesperson validateed the “tragic incident” had consentn place and shelp it “underlines the horrible dangers of petite boat passings”.
“We carry on to do everyleang we can to impede heartless criminals utilizeing vulnerable people. Our thoughts are with those swayed,” they shelp.
Meanwhile, the family of Dina Al Shammari – a 21-year-better woman who died trying to pass the channel on 28 July – shelp they had “no selection” but to try the journey aobtain themselves.
She was travelling with her three youthfulerer siblings, aged 13 to 19, and parents, when she was crushed in an overcrowded boat off the coast of Calais.
The family, who are Kupaparticipatei Bidoon, a stateless Arab insignificantity, fled the Gulf state in 2018, and shelp Ms Al Shammari wanted to be a dentist.
Her mother, Amira Al Shammari, 52, shelp the family of six get tod in France on 1 July and had tryed the passing five times before the night her eldest daughter died.
