{"id":126930,"date":"2024-09-03T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/at-least-13-dead-after-boat-with-dozens-of-migrants-rips-open-in-channel-mayor-says\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:52:09","slug":"at-least-13-dead-after-boat-with-dozens-of-migrants-rips-open-in-channel-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/at-least-13-dead-after-boat-with-dozens-of-migrants-rips-open-in-channel-mayor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 13 dead after boat with dozens of migrants ‘rips open’ in Channel, mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least 13 people have died after a boat with dozens of migrants tore apart in the English Channel, a local mayor has said.<\/p>\n

Olivier Barbarin, mayor of Le Portel, a French coastal town being used in a rescue operation, said “the bottom of the boat ripped open”.<\/p>\n

The French coastguard said more than 50 people had been rescued after a vessel got into difficulties on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Local authorities said several people needed emergency treatment and a temporary medical post has been set up at the port at Boulogne-sur-Mer, about 28 miles (45km) southwest of Calais.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the French maritime prefecture said helicopters and boats have been used in the search for survivors.<\/p>\n

Resources deployed included helicopters and vessels from the French customs and Navy, as well as boats from the SNSM, the French equivalent of the RNLI.<\/p>\n

Another media outlet France 3 had initially said “at least 100 migrants” were on board at 11.30am (10.30am UK time).<\/p>\n

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France’s Interior minister Gerald Darmanin is expected in Pas-de-Calais later this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Posting on X, he described the incident as “terrible”, adding that “all government resources [have been] mobilised to find the missing and take care of the victims”.<\/p>\n

Le Portel is reportedly where the boat was launched.<\/p>\n

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At least 30 migrants have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Channel this year, according to the International Organisation for Migration.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile figures show at least 2,109 migrants have tried to make the trip in small boats in the past seven days, according to the latest Home Office data.<\/p>\n

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Separately on Tuesday, an RNLI lifeboat docked in Dover with suspected migrants on board after being deployed to the English Channel.<\/p>\n

It is not currently believed those people were rescued from the incident off the coast of France.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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