Several migrants have died after their boat capsized in the English Channel, the French interior minister has said.The French AFP news agency reported five deaths as Gerald Darmanin confirmed on Twitter that a boat had sunk in the Channel with several dead.The French Interior Minister was heading to Calais amid reports that several other people had been found unconscious in the Channel after their boat sank.
More than 25,000 people have made the dangerous crossing from France to the UK by boat so far this year, a sharp rise on the 8,404 in 2020 - and far more than in years before the pandemic, when most asylum seekers arrived by plane, ferry or train.UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Prime Minister Boris Johnson have come under intense
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