Nearly 140 migrants rescued in the English Channel off Pas-de-Calais. Five others were rescued on Saturday after their ship capsized.
Shipwrecked people “taken care of by the emergency services on land’ Some 36,000 migrants attempted to reach England in 2023 by illegally crossing the Channel from the French coast, a figure down by more than 30% over one year, according to the maritime prefecture, which counts 12 deaths over the past year..