A rescue operation was launched on Wednesday off the coast of Calais after a life jacket was spotted in the sea.

TWO people have died after a migrant boat “with 50 on board” sank in the Channel. The tragedy unfolded this morning off the coast of Sangatte, close to Calais, when around 50 migrants

French maritime authorities have pulled the bodies of two migrants from the English Channel, pushing the count of dead and missing in French waters so far this year above 50

Two people have died after a migrant boat sank in the English Channel on Wednesday morning, French maritime authorities have said. The French maritime prefecture for the Channel and the North Sea said another 46 migrants were rescued after the incident off the coast of Calais.

French prosecutors opened a criminal investigation Friday into the death of a baby pulled from the English Channel after an overloaded boat carrying migrants got in to trouble off the northern coast of France.

The French coastguard says that two migrants have died and dozens of others were rescued after a boat sank in the English Channel. A rescue operation was launched on Wednesday as the group tried to make it to England. Some 48 people were recovered in the ...

Two people have died after an overloaded migrant boat sank in the English Channel off the coast of Calais on Wednesday morning. French maritime authorities said 46 people have been rescued alive and a search and rescue operation remains ongoing.