A body was discovered on Saturday morning on a beach near Calais, three days after that on Wednesday of three bodies of migrants trying to cross the Channel.
A body was discovered Saturday morning on a beach in Sangatte, near Calais (Pas-de-Calais), where around twenty police officers and firefighters were present, noted an AFP correspondent.
This discovery comes three days after that, on Wednesday, of three bodies of migrants on the beach of Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, and the death of a migrant in an attempted crossing.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, then during the day on Friday, 160 migrants who were trying to cross the Channel on small boats were rescued, the maritime prefecture said in a press release.
On October 23, three migrants died in a shipwreck. The Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor’s office reported at the beginning of the week a persistent “question” about this shipwreck, due to a discrepancy between the number of people rescued and certain testimonies on the number of passengers.
At least 60 people have died in migrants’ attempted sea crossings to England since the start of the year, making 2024 the costliest year in human lives since the phenomenon first appeared in 2018. .
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