Border Force officers rescued 50 people, five of whom had ended up in the freezing Channel, after their boat started to sink on the same night a major search and rescue operation was launched when a dinghy capsized.
Members of the RNLI remove a stretcher and body bag from the Dover lifeboat following a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel Border Force officers rescued 50 people, five of whom had ended up in the freezing water, after their boat started to sink on the same night a major search and rescue operation was launched when a dinghy capsized.
Officers are also trying to identify the people who died and track down their relatives, the force said on Friday.Migrants on board the dinghy told fishermen they had paid £5,000 each to people smugglers for the journey from France to the UK, according to media reports. Inflatable craft and boat engines used by migrants to cross the channel are stored in a Home Office facility on December 15
NCA director-general Graeme Biggar said: ‘This incident, tragically, highlights the dangers of these crossings, a high percentage of which are facilitated by organised criminal networks.
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