Children feared among three dead in Channel crossing attempt

French authorities, trying to cross the British channel, three people died on the Calais coast overnight, he said.

Pas-de-Calais Governor Laurent Touvet said that the dead were probably crushed to the bottom of the boat. He told reporters that smuggling was responsible for deaths and promised to go after them.

Initially, two of them were children, and the authorities said that the victims were “young” with two children. The dead are thought to be from Egypt and South East Asia.

Authorities, the boat on more than 70 ships “overloaded” said.

Mr. Touvet also said that three more people on a separate boat trying to pass in Neufchâtel-Hardelot were not calculated.

A third boat carrying 115 people was rescued by the patrol boat of the French Navy. Mr. Touvet said that injury was not reported on the third boat, but it was “probably the highest number we’ve ever seen.”

Three died, after the aid and rescue tug of France, after Abeille Normandie, was found after the local time on the shores near Calais to rescue the local time (04:00 BST).

French Naval officials, then three people who were pronounced dead and three people who were taken to hospital, including 44 people were rescued from the “overloaded boat”, he said.

Maritime, approximately 28 people from the boat, “offered aid rejected and continued on its way,” he said.

This year, more than 20 people are thought to have lost their lives in the channel. On Tuesday, A woman died after trying to cross the channel On a small boat carrying other immigrants on the Dover coast.

In 2025, more than 30,000 people have reached England in small boats so far, and the worker has been more than 50,000 since he came to power in July 2024.

According to the events recorded by French Coast Security, 50 people died last year trying to cross the channel

The International Migration Organization (IOM), a UN agency, monitors the number of people trying to cross the channel.

It includes people traveling to a transition point between the numbers and die in other cases such as car accidents or medical problems.

IOM estimates that at least 82 immigrants died in 2024, which makes it the most deadly year under record.

The British government has been under pressure on the number of small boats and asylum seekers who passed to England.

In July, France and the UK agreed on the “Out, One Out” return agreement, designed as a deterrent to prevent boats from crossing the channel. This proposes that Britain to return to France, another immigrant with the asylum case in England, for each immigrant.

New Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood said in a statement on Sunday that small boat transitions are “completely unacceptable and that the vile human smugglers behind it damage our borders.”

After a cabinet reorganization, the statement, which was published only for two days – Mahmood said that it was priority to protect the borders of England and discover all options for restoring the order to the immigration system.

Last month, the house office figures showed that 111,000 asylum applications were made to the UK in June.

The figures also showed that the number of people who came to England through hidden routes such as small boats increased the number of “irregular” arrival.

The government is also under pressure on housing arrangements for those looking for shelters.

Last month’s figures showed that 32,059 asylum seekers were in hotels at the end of June – before the Labor Party began to work, but on September 2023, under the previous government, 56,042 peaks.

74.016 was in the housing financed by the taxpayer called “disintegration” accommodation, like longer -term rental apartments.

Labor wants to accelerate the plan to end the use of hotels, which have become a focal point for anti -immigrant protests.

However, conservatives, labor continued in the orbit before the last general elections – when Tories is still in power – then they say there will be no more shelter hotels.

At that time, home office figures were published, then the house secretary Yette Cooper said that his government had inherited a broken migration and asylum system [from the Tories]”.