3 Arrested Over English Channel Migrant Deaths

Published on April 24, 2024

Three men were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and entering Britain illegally, as part of an investigation into the deaths of five migrants trying to cross the English Channel. The National Crime Agency (NCA) and Immigration Enforcement detained two Sudanese nationals, aged 22 and 19, and a 22-year-old South Sudan national. The three men will be questioned by NCA investigators at a Kent police station. An overloaded boat, carrying 112 migrants, left the French shores in the early hours of Tuesday morning but experienced engine difficulties shortly after. As a result, a number of people fell into the water and five were later pronounced dead by French authorities. Three men, a woman, and a girl, were killed in the accident....