The search for the four Channel migrants still missing after their dinghy capsized yesterday morning has been called off, with a teenager among the four more confirmed dead
The Royal Navy, French navy, Coastguard, RNLI lifeboats and a fishing boat rescued 39 people, 12 of whom were children, from the freezing waters, local authorities said, before the search was called off at 3.30pm on Thursday.
Mr Goold said that the tragedy was a "sobering reminder of the human costs of what is an ongoing crisis". Ben Squire told Nick Ferrari that he wasn't on the boat but his team were first at the scene, explaining: “I was awoken at 4’o’clock in the morning, took a couple of deep breaths, it’s never a phone call like that to see how I’m doing...
"This is about men and women, brothers and sisters, all at this lifeboat station who went out to save fellow men, women, brothers and sisters. "It is for this reason, above all, that we are working so hard to destroy the business model of the people smugglers, evil, organised criminals who treat human beings as cargo."
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