{"id":11181,"date":"2026-05-03T11:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/11181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:57:14","slug":"2-dead-after-boat-runs-aground-in-france-in-failed-crossing-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/11181\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after boat runs aground in France in failed crossing to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A small boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel ran aground on a beach in northern France, leaving two dead and 16 people injured, including three with serious burns, authorities said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The vessel, carrying 82 people, set out overnight from Hardelot beach, a few kilometres south of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, but the engine failed and it began to drift, Christophe Marx, Secretary General of the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A French maritime gendarmerie vessel rescued 17 people and brought them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, while the makeshift boat ran aground with 65 others still on board.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two women were found dead, most likely from suffocation, Marx said. They are believed to have been \u201ccrushed or asphyxiated, as unfortunately often happens on boats \u2026 where too many people are packed in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The women were believed to be in their 20s and to have come from Sudan, he said, adding that an investigation was under way. Three of the injured were in very serious condition with burns caused by fuel at the bottom of the boat, he added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Britain\u2019s Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (centre) walks with France\u2019s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (left) and French police officers as they attend a presentation of the operational resources used to counter illegal immigration, on the shores of Zuydcoote, near Dunkirk, northern France, on April 23. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9afc09c0-010d-4c0d-b502-9d55ac138ac2_466451cb.jpg\" title=\"Britain\u2019s Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (centre) walks with France\u2019s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (left) and French police officers as they attend a presentation of the operational resources used to counter illegal immigration, on the shores of Zuydcoote, near Dunkirk, northern France, on April 23. Photo: AFP\"\/>Britain\u2019s Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (centre) walks with France\u2019s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (left) and French police officers as they attend a presentation of the operational resources used to counter illegal immigration, on the shores of Zuydcoote, near Dunkirk, northern France, on April 23. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was the third deadly incident involving migrants attempting the perilous crossing to the UK in just over a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel ran aground on a beach in northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8623,3983,4024,1995,5,607,8622,8626,2704,3280,8625,5113,8627,6970,8624],"class_list":{"0":"post-11181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-boulogne-sur-mer","9":"tag-british","10":"tag-calais","11":"tag-english-channel","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-french","14":"tag-hardelot-beach","15":"tag-marx","16":"tag-migrants","17":"tag-pas-de-calais","18":"tag-perilous-crossing","19":"tag-sudan","20":"tag-surveillance","21":"tag-u-k","22":"tag-utopia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}