Five people including child die in Channel boat crossing | BBC News

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Five people, including a seven-year-old girl, died while trying to cross the English Channel in the early hours of Tuesday, French officials have said.

Authorities said the victims were trying to get to the UK on an overloaded boat carrying 112 migrants.

Several search-and-rescue operations are under way to find survivors.

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  1. As the Police have arrested people for "facilitating illegal immigration" concerning this case, it is confirmed that these people are Illigal immigrants. Not "migrants" And not "refugees".

  2. The French police need to be stopping this whole process on the beaches. They are not interested, the more that leave France soil, the less problems the French police have back in France.

  3. They died of CRUSH INJURIES. The French Navy then carried on to escort the dinghy out to sea, to be met by the RNLI and the British Border Force.
    THE MANAGEMENT OF THE RNLI NEED TO BE HAD UP IN COURT FOR FACILITATING THIS MADNESS. CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER!

  4. Solution1: Remove ANY form of welfare to asylum seekers who have come via "safe" zones. Then watch the amazing drop-off in numbers.
    Solution 2: Offer a work permit for a limited period to with no rights to any form of state welfare – and entry only on the proviso they have a legitimate job offer, adequate health insurance and private accommodation within a limited time frame.

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