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Five people die in attempt to cross English Channel to the UK

Five people drowned when the engine of a small boat overcrowded with asylum seekers stopped just off the French coast. Forty-nine people were rescued, and 58 insisted on continuing their journey, French officials say [Yves Herman/Reuters]

Five asylum seekers, including a child, have died while crossing the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded small boat, just hours after the British government approved a bill to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The boat carrying 112 people set out from Wimereux, about 32km (20 miles) southwest of the French port of Calais, to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

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