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Four migrants including child die in Channel crossing attempt (www.bbc.co.uk)

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In one of the incidents, a French rescue service picked up 15 people, including the boy, and one person was airlifted to a French hospital with burns to their legs.

The prefect of the Pas-de-Calais region, Jacques Billant, said one of the boats was off the coast of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France which was carrying "almost 90 people" overnight.
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According to the Boulogne-Sur-Mer prosecutor Guirec Le Bras, the young boy, who he said was born in Germany to a Somali mother, was “trampled to death”.
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On a separate overcrowded small boat, another incident happened overnight off the coast of Calais when “multiple engine failures led to a stampede and some migrants fell into the water but were rescued”, Billant told journalists.

“Three people – two men and a woman – were then discovered unconscious inside this small boat,” he added. Billant said they were all about 30 years old.

“They were likely trampled to death during the stampede," Billant said.
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According to French authorities, 51 migrants have lost their lives this year while trying to cross the Channel to reach the UK.
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UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, also posting on X, described the deaths as "appalling", adding that "criminal smuggler gangs continue to organise these dangerous boat crossings".

"The gangs do not care if people live or die - this is a terrible trade in lives," she said.

She said she had been in touch with Retailleau on Saturday, and they had met in Italy at the G7 meeting earlier this week, where they had discussed the matter.

She previously said that an action plan agreed at that meeting "means new international joint investigative teams to pursue the gangs, finance and supply chains."

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