'At least 12 dead' after boat carrying migrants capsizes in English Channel | LBC
Shelagh Fogarty speaks to senior correspondent for France24, Catherine Norris Trent, after a migrant boat capsized in the English Channel.
A major rescue operation is said to be underway after a boat carrying around 100 migrants capsized, with at least 12 people dead.
Emergency services were deployed in large numbers to the channel at around 9:30 GMT on Tuesday, according to local media, with the operation still ongoing.
More than 50 migrants were rescued as part of the rescue effort, after a boat got into difficulty trying to cross the English Channel, the French coastguard has said.
France’s outgoing interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said: "Terrible shipwreck in Pas-de-Calais, off Wimereux. The provisional toll stands at 12 dead, two missing and several injured."
The French coastguard added the boat was attempted to cross over to the UK from France on Tuesday.
The vessel is said to have got into trouble around 28 miles southwest of Calais.
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