Two killed and 16 injured in attempted channel crossing from France to U.K.

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The U.K. and French governments signed past period a caller multimillion-euro woody aimed astatine reducing the fig of migrants crossing the English Channel, with accrued constabulary patrols and enhanced surveillance successful bluish France. File picture | Photo Credit: Reuters

A tiny vessel carrying migrants trying to transverse the English Channel ran aground connected a formation successful bluish France, leaving 2 dormant and 16 radical injured, including 3 with superior burns, authorities said connected Sunday (May 3, 2026).

The vessel, carrying 82 people, acceptable retired overnight from Hardelot beach, a fewer kilometres (miles) southbound of the larboard of Boulogne-sur-Mer, but the motor failed, and it began to drift, Christophe Marx, secretary-general of the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, told reporters.

Published - May 03, 2026 03:53 p.m. IST

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