{"id":413443,"date":"2025-09-10T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413443\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:24:16","slug":"grim-night-on-english-channel-as-3-die-3-go-missing-trying-to-cross-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413443\/","title":{"rendered":"Grim night on English Channel as 3 die, 3 go missing trying to cross to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people are believed to have been crushed to death and three others were missing in two separate incidents as migrants attempted to cross the English Channel, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/france?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">French<\/a> officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The latest tragedies, which took place in northern France overnight on Tuesday to Wednesday, bring the number of deaths this year linked to crossings in overcrowded dinghies to at least 23, according to official French data.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Laurent Touvet, the top state official for the northern region of Pas-de-Calais, said the three victims were a female and two males.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThey are young people,\u201d the prefect told reporters, adding there might have been two minors among the victims. The tragedy occurred off the coast of Sangatte, he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Migrants wade through the sea to board an inflatable dinghy leaving the coast of northern France to cross the English Channel on August 25. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/de9f8151-dfc4-443b-9eef-7997ed4d739a_bc623259.jpg\" title=\"Migrants wade through the sea to board an inflatable dinghy leaving the coast of northern France to cross the English Channel on August 25. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Migrants wade through the sea to board an inflatable dinghy leaving the coast of northern France to cross the English Channel on August 25. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At around 5am on Wednesday, a tugboat rescued a group of migrants, bringing them to the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Three people, presumably crushed to death \u201cat the bottom of the boat\u201d, had been found with the rescued migrants, the prefect said. Three other people were hospitalised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people are believed to have been crushed to death and three others were missing in two separate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[79912,142066,142065,5502,2000,299,36,142071,807,142067,142069,142068,19120,142070,60422,115661],"class_list":{"0":"post-413443","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-cecile-gressier","10":"tag-cross-channel-migration","11":"tag-english-channel","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-french-officials","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-laurent-touvet","18":"tag-neufchatel-hardelot","19":"tag-northern-france","20":"tag-pas-de-calais","21":"tag-sangatte","22":"tag-shabana-mahmood","23":"tag-uk-home-office"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180697479216327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413443","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=413443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}