At least 404 people have died since 1999 attempting to cross the Channel to what they hoped would be a brighter future in Britain, humanitarian groups say.
A group of migrants disembarks from an inflatable dinghy at the Le Portel beach after an unsuccessful attempt to cross the English Channel / Photo: Reuters Archive
In the French port city of Calais, a group of aid workers and volunteers is scrambling to identify a mounting number of dead in order to give them a dignified burial. Their graves are often simple mounds of earth, topped with a name and date of death on a metal plate.The body of Behzad, an Iranian born in 1988, washed ashore in 2020, a single 50-euro bill carefully wrapped in a plastic pouch still on him.The aid worker said she visited all the informal migrant camps in the area with the waterproofed banknote to ask for help to identify him.
Surrounded by white pebbles and covered in flowers, the grave of Salim — a migrant who died in 2017 — stands out, however.
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