At least six people died, and more than 50 were rescued, after a migrant boat attempted to cross the English Channel and capsized, French authorities said.
reportedly launched a massive rescue operation around 6 a.m. local time as dozens of migrant boats tried to make the crossing all at the same time.
Notre Dame du Risban, an SNSM lifeboat, enters the port of Calais following a rescue operation after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France capsized, in Calais, France, August 12, 2023. A volunteer aboard one of the rescue boats told Reuters they had saved 54 people from the capsized craft. She described how frantic migrants were using their shoes to bail out water of the sinking boat, which was overloaded.
The British coastguard said it sent a lifeboat from Dover to assist rescue efforts, along with a coastguard rescue team and ambulance staff.and two lifeboats rescued all of those on board another small boat in the Channel in a separate incident on Saturday, the British coastguard added. Rescued migrants sit on a French rescue ship after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France capsized, in Calais, France, August 12, 2023.
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