
More than 12,300 migrants have crosed the English Channel this year
(Picture: PA Wire)Ten people suspected to be involved in the drowning of 27 migrants in the English Channel near Calais are being held in French police custody, a judicial source said on Thursday.
One has been charged with manslaughter and people-trafficking, and the nine others were to be taken before a judge who will decide whether to charge them as well, the source told French media.