According to the most recent government statistics, 14 boats were used to transport the people who arrived on Saturday.
This year’s total number of arrivals is the second-highest. The current record for the most arrivals in a single day this year is 882, spread across 15 boats, on June 18.
According to a local official, the deaths happened overnight when a boat “tore apart on the rocks” off the coast of Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais area of northern France.
A total of fifty-one accident survivors were saved. Six were sent to the hospital, one of them a 10-month-old infant who was hypothermic.
Profit-driven, people traffickers are offering hazardous crossings on improperly equipped boats, endangering an increasing number of lives “the official, Jacques Billant, stated. They are practically dying as a result of this.
The boats are underpowered, poorly made, overloaded, underinflated, and do not have enough life jackets for every passenger.
It occurs as 200 individuals were rescued by French authorities off the coast of Calais throughout the course of 24 hours on Friday and Saturday night.
Off the shore of Le Portel, a seaside village in France, a poorly maintained boat carrying migrants was found, and 55 people were saved.
