Two migrants have died attempting to cross the English Channel in a boat packed with almost 80 people.<\/p>\n
The French coastguard said two asylum seekers were recovered from the water unconscious.<\/p>\n
Another 10 people were rescued in the latest Channel horror and the boat was allowed to carry on to Britain after the other migants refused to be rescued.<\/p>\n
Rescue teams said the vessel left from a beach in Gravelines.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for France\u2019s Maritme prefecture confirmed that the unidentified migrants were “pulled out by a Navy vessel” and sailors “performed first aid on the two victims, but they were soon declared dead.”<\/p>\n
Another investigating source said the the boat was “heavily overcrowded”, and designed to carry no more than 20 people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pictures show migrants wrapped in blankets disembarking from a Border Force boat in Dover, Kent, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Others were also brought to shore in an RNLI lifeboat.<\/p>\n
The deaths on Wednesday come just days after another migrant was confirmed dead after a small boat sank in the Channel.<\/p>\n
The Maritime Prefect of the Channel and the North Sea said on Monday that 62 people were pulled from the water after the \u201coverloaded\u201d boat broke up overnight.<\/p>\n
Almost 13,000 people have made the journey across the Channel and arrived in the UK so far this year, a record number for this point in the calendar year.<\/p>\n
Labour has insisted \u201csmashing the gangs\u201d will end the migrant crisis, despite fears over a lack of a deterrent. Border Force and the National Crime Agency will be given counter-terrorism style powers to go after the gangs, under new plans going through Parliament.<\/p>\n
Small boat arrivals face up to five years in prison if they refuse to be rescued in the Channel by the French authorities. A new offence will be created to target those endangering another life during a crossing.<\/p>\n
This means anyone fighting with French police on the beaches, holding children over the edge of a small boat or \u201crushing\u201d vessels as they try to launch could all be prosecuted, with a maximum penalty of five years behind bars.<\/p>\n
The law changes are designed to replicate powers in the Terrorism Act 2006, so that preparing for a crossing and possession of equipment such as boats, engines and life jackets would be a criminal offence if the intention was to use them to take\u00a0migrants\u00a0across the Channel.<\/p>\n
And sending failed asylum seekers to Balkan nations is considered another weapon in the \u201carmoury\u201d for the fight in the\u00a0migrant\u00a0crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two migrants have died attempting to cross the English Channel in a boat packed with almost 80 people.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[44175,5502,53503,53505,53502,5804,53504,12,24786,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-119659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-coastguard","10":"tag-english-channel","11":"tag-english-channel-crossing","12":"tag-french-coastguard","13":"tag-lifeboat","14":"tag-migrant-crisis","15":"tag-migrant-deaths","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-rescue-operation","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114545598373451154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}