A seven-year-old girl died when a refugee boat capsized in northern France. The girl was on the boat with her parents and three siblings. Her family survived the accident, as did the other migrants on the boat.
A total of 16 migrants left by boat on Sunday morning from a canal in the hinterland of Calais to reach the English Channel to travel to Britain, the newspaper “La Voix du Nord” reported, citing the police prefecture.
Investigation procedure started
The rescued migrants were cared for in a gym and provided with dry clothes. Police questioned the adults and opened an investigation. The report did not say where the people came from.
For a long time, many migrants from the northern French coast crossed the English Channel to Great Britain in rubber boats. Migrants die repeatedly during crossings organized by smugglers.
Just last week, one person died and two people went missing in the floods. France is also combating unwanted migration by the British government with financial support from London. The fact that migrants are now leaving for waters in the hinterland of the English Channel could be related to this increased surveillance of the coast, police report.
Source: Krone
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