{"id":293239,"date":"2025-07-26T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293239\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:07:09","slug":"man-dies-trying-to-cross-english-channel-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293239\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies trying to cross English Channel from France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PARIS &#8212; One person has died after attempting to cross <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/english-channel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the English Channel<\/a> from a beach in northern France, local authorities said on Saturday, bringing the death toll this year in the perilous waterway to at least 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Pas-de-Calais department\u2019s prefecture told The Associated Press that a man was found in cardiac arrest on board a boat which had attempted to reach Britain and then turned back toward French shores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The man was found near \u00c9quihen beach, close to the town of Boulogne-sur-mer. He was pronounced dead despite the efforts of firefighters to revive him. An investigation into the cause of his death has been opened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">French media, quoting numbers from France&#8217;s Interior ministry, said 18 people have died trying to reach Britain by sea since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Follow AP\u2019s global migration coverage at <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/migration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS &#8212; One person has died after attempting to cross the English Channel from a beach in northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[108984,3907,106460,2000,299,36,4179,302,40,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-293239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-108984","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-coastlines-and-beaches","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-heart-disease","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114919456389823572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293239","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=293239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}