French interior minister Bruno Retailleau says the boy had been ‘trampled to death’ after the vessel suffered engine failure
A group of migrants arriving in to Dover, Kent, from the RNLI Dover Lifeboat following one of the small boat incidents in the Channel. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA WireA two-year-old boy, a woman and two men died in “two tragedies” off the coast of France , the Prefect of Pas-de-Calais region has confirmed.
But Mr Billant said that when 71 migrants were transferred from the inflatable boat to the Flamant – a French navy patrol boat, three people were found unconscious at the bottom of the boat. “Two new tragedies occurred at sea this morning. The toll is very heavy, since we deeply regret the death of four people: two men, a woman and a child.”
“This is literally leading them to accidents and death, as was the case on September 3rd, September 15th and again this morning.” British home secretary Yvette Cooper said that she had been in touch with the French interior minister. The fatal incident comes after the British Home Office confirmed that 395 migrants arrived in the UK crossed the English Channel on Friday in the first arrivals in five days.
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