27 migrants die in boat 'tragedy' between France and England
The Hindu
French prosecutors have opened a manslaughter probe while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to hold a crisis meeting
At least 27 migrants died Wednesday crossing from France to England when their boat sank off the port of Calais, French authorities said, the deadliest disaster since the sea route began to be widely used in 2018.
The French Interior Ministry said in a statement that patrol vessels found corpses and people unconscious in the water after a fisherman sounded the alarm.
French police then said that 27 people had died after setting out from Dunkirk east of Calais in a boat with some 50 people on board.
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