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Channel migrant deaths: Overcrowded boat capsizes
Five migrants, including a child, died on Tuesday trying to cross the English Channel from France to England in an overloaded dinghy, with authorities saying Wednesday that some suffocated inside the vessel.
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The deaths happened when a boat, which had a recommended maximum capacity of 20 but was carrying 112, attempted to cross one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
Panic broke out among the passengers a short distance off the coast of Wimereux, northern France, when the boat hit a sandbank, causing people to stand up and the vessel to capsize.
While some of the five victims – a four-year-old girl, a woman and three men – drowned, others are believed to have suffocated or been crushed “as they desperately tried to free themselves”, an investigator was quoted as saying by the MailOnline.
Rescue teams pulled 49 people from the water, four of whom were taken to hospital, but others remained on the upturned vessel, determined to reach the UK.
“I have never seen a boat so overloaded,” said Jacques Billant, the mayor of Pas-de-Calais, the French department that borders the Channel, adding that people smugglers usually limited numbers to about 50.
The BBC reported a French prosecutor as saying that the vessel was so overcrowded because “between 40 and 50 migrants are said to have emerged from the forest and forced their way on board, crushing many of those already there”.
Most of the migrants on board had paid people smugglers the equivalent of £1,000 for the crossing.
The mayor of Wimereux blamed the UK for the tragedy, arguing that it happened because the British “welcome migrants”.
However, the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, said Tuesday’s disaster in the Channel, one of several incidents in which 14 migrants attempting to reach the UK have died so far this year, “underscores the need to deter people from making this perilous journey”.
According to the UK authorities, almost 29,437 of the 67,337 asylum claims made in the UK last year were from people who arrived in small boats, which are often unseaworthy and overcrowded.
Read More: Pelo menos 5 migrantes (incluindo uma criança) morrem no Canal da Mancha (Portuguese version)
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