(ANSA) - PARIS, 14 JAN - Another terrible day of pain and death in the English Channel.
A young migrant who was trying to cross the strait between France and England with about thirty other people on board a small makeshift boat died this morning, at the Berck extension, in the French department of Pas-de-Calais. prefecture of Boulogne-sur-Mer cited by France Presse.
The victim, about twenty years old, would be of Sudanese nationality, specifies the local prosecutor who opened an investigation for manslaughter.
This is the first death of a migrant in the Channel in 2022, after the tragic toll of 2021, with 30 migrants dead and 4 missing.
According to the prosecutor, the other 32 people who tried to cross the Channel together with the young victim were brought back to the ground "safe and sound" by French rescuers, but in a state of "hypothermia".
The migrants were aboard a "semi-rigid rubber dinghy", the local prosecutor specified.
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