Two more bodies have today been found in the English Channel, bringing this week’s migrant death toll to six, after authorities said earlier today that four migrants were found dead in the sea.
On Wednesday morning a pleasure boat crew reported to the French coastguard that they had spotted a human body adrift off Calais.
Rescue vessels were launched and the body was recovered and brought back to the quay in Calais.
And on Wednesday afternoon the crew of a passenger ship reported to French coastguard that they had seen another body adrift off the coast in front of the port of Calais.
The person recovered and brought back into the port of Calais, as an investigation was opened by the Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor’s office.
Two more bodies have today been found in the English Channel, bringing this week’s migrant death toll to six
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the…