At least four people have died after a small boat likely to be carrying migrants capsized in the English Channel, authorities confirmed Wednesday after a major search and rescue operation was launched in the early hours of the morning
The UK’s South East Coast Ambulance Service said it sent resources to Dover, England, after receiving a call regarding the incident at about 3:40 a.m. GMT , PA Media reported. British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that “tragically there have been four fatalities,” but said it would be inappropriate to go into details.
Enver Solomon, CEO of the Refugee Council, said in a statement that “devastating news” of the incident was sadly not isolated. “It is just over a year since 32 lives were lost in a similar incident,” Solomon said in a statement sent to CNN. Last November, 27 people drowned in bitterly cold waters off the coast of France after an inflatable boat carrying migrants bound for Britain capsized, in one of the deadliest incidents in the English Channel in recent years.
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