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MPs demand new pathways to apply for refugee status as four people die during small boat crossing

At least four people have died after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in freezing temperatures in the English Channel overnight.

Four people are now confirmed to have died and approximately 40 are believed to have been in the dinghy with many taken to hospital after their harrowing ordeal

LONDON: At least four people died when a small boat apparently packed with migrants capsized in freezing temperatures in the Channel overnight, the UK government said on Wednesday.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the deaths of four migrants as a boat sank in the English Channel were the 'most sobering reminder possible of why we have to end these crossings'

Four migrants sadly died this morning when a boat carrying up to 50 sank in sub-zero temperatures just five miles off the coast of Dungeness in Kent - more than 40 were also rescued

At least four people were killed when a small boat loaded with migrants heading for British shores from France capsized in the freezing waters of the English Channel early on Wednesday, the British government said. Lifeboats, helicopters and rescue teams working with the French and British navies respond to the…

Refugee Action said the deaths were ‘predictable and avoidable’.

At least 4 dead and dozens of others rescued after a boat capsizes in the English Channel, UK media reports.

Local fisherman recalls how migrants surrounded his boat in the early hours of the morning 'screaming for help', before crew members started hauling them from the water

The Royal Navy, French navy, Coastguard and RNLI lifeboats were all involved in a major rescue operation off the Kent coast on Wednesday morning.