Four people have died while attempting to cross the English Channel to the UK from France.
The French coastguard said a boat carrying 67 people capsized off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France overnight. The remaining 63 people on board were rescued in an operation involving four ships and a helicopter, a spokesperson said. Large numbers of people have continued to cross the Channel this year. Last month, almost 900 people made the journey in a single day.
It is designed both to strengthen border security and 'smash the criminal smuggling gangs making millions out of small boat crossings', the government website says. But in what appears to be a setback, Neil Basu, a former national head of counterterrorism, has turned down the chance to head the new initiative, according to The Times newspaper. The four deaths were first reported by French newspaper La Voix Du Nord and broadcaster BFM TV, citing local authorities.
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