A migrant minor was found dead during an attempt to cross the English Channel and another, injured, was airlifted to a hospital, the maritime prefecture of the Channel and North Sea announced on Saturday, October 5. This new death brings to 47 the number of exiles who perished in these crossing attempts in 2024.
After an overloaded ship requested assistance in the morning, emergency services recovered, between 8 and 9 a.m., fourteen people on board, including this deceased, whose age and sex are not yet known, specifically Agence France -Press. The Voice of the North It evokes a 3 or 4 year old child.
An injured person, who is not known to be a minor, was taken by plane to the Boulogne hospital, reported the maritime prefecture of La Manche and the North Sea, which specified that it was not an accident, since the miner dead was found in the canoe. not in the water.
On the night of September 14-15, eight immigrants died when a ship that had just left the French coast sank. On September 3, at least twelve other people lost their lives when their boat broke apart. The year 2024 is the deadliest since English Channel crossings began “small boats”name given to these improvised inflatable boats, in 2018.
