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Three dead, including child, after migrant boat in difficulty off French coast
September 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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4 reports · 1 in Arabic, 3 in English · over 2 hours
AJAl Jazeera English
Child among three killed off French coast in Channel crossing attempt
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
3 قتلى في حادث قارب مهاجرين في بحر المانش
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TGThe Guardian
Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
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BNBBC News
Three dead, including child, in Channel crossing attempt
(opens the publisher’s site)Three people, including a child, have died after an overcrowded migrant boat got into difficulty in the English Channel off northern France, authorities said.
- A 10-year-old child and two 30-year-old women died after an inflatable dinghy carrying 105 people ran into difficulty off Wissant, the French Maritime Prefecture said.
- The prefecture said the vessel, which departed Blériot Plage beach in Calais on Monday morning, issued a distress call and did not sink.
- The deaths bring this year's Channel crossing fatalities to at least 22, French police told AFP.
- The rescue ship Mink docked at Calais and began disembarking survivors, with some taken ashore on stretchers or wheelchairs.