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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Child dies while reportedly trying to reach UK in small boat

Two large groups of people on small boats in open water
People embark in small boats as they attempt to cross the Channel, near Gravelines in northern France on Saturday. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images

A child is believed to have died while trying to cross the Channel in a small boat, according to French reports. The body of the teenager, who was believed to have fallen from a dinghy, was discovered on a beach in northern France on Sunday.

The death follows those of three other people on Saturday who were trying to reach the UK – two Somali women who were reportedly crushed in a boat, and a man whose body was recovered from a canal in the town of Gravelines, near Dunkirk.

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