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Added on the 24/11/2021 20:24:41 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Rescue services and mortuary vans enter and leave Calais port area after a migrant boat captsized. Six people were killed when a boat carrying migrants heading to Britain sank in the Channel. IMAGES
Journalists walk around the dunes of Wimereux beach on the northern coast of France in the early morning, the day after at least 27 migrants trying to reach England died when their boat sank in the deadliest disaster since the Channel became a hub for clandestine crossings. IMAGES
Images of the Port of Dover in southeast England after six Afghan men died on Saturday 12 August when a boat carrying around sixty migrants sank in an attempt to reach the UK, according to French officials. Three French ships, a helicopter and a plane were mobilised to search the area off Sangatte in northern France for survivors, along with two British ships. IMAGES
One man has died and about 30 other people have been rescued in the Channel after their boat ran into difficulties while trying to cross from northern France to Britain on Friday, prosecutors say. The victim is believed to be in his 20s and to be of Sudanese origin, the prosecutor's office in Boulogne-sur-Mer said, adding that the others had been rescued in waters off the village of Berck. IMAGES of Berck beach
In Calais, several dozen people participate in a "circle of silence" in tribute to the 27 migrants who drowned in the English Channel, an unprecedented tragedy which has shocked the inhabitants of the northern French city. IMAGES