People in a capsizing boat in the English Channel desperately tried to contact charities to come to their aid - with a voice message sent in the early hours of the morning containing begs for help and 'babies screaming' in the background.
Four individuals died in the incident, which saw a migrant boat become waterlogged. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed his “sorrow” at the “capsizing of a small boat” in the Channel, telling MPs there had been a “tragic loss of human life”.
And, harrowingly, a spokesman for a French charity said it was sent a voice message in the early hours of the morning from migrants in a waterlogged boat begging for help, and that babies could be heard screaming in the background. The Royal Navy, French navy, Coastguard and RNLI lifeboats were all involved in a major rescue operation off the Kent coast on Wednesday morning.
