Migrant Dies Attempting to Cross Channel After Dinghy Deflates off French Coast

One person died attempting to cross the English Channel from France on Wednesday, French officials said. The fatality occurred after an overcrowded rubber dinghy deflated off the coast of Gravelines on the country’s northern coast, according to the Maritime Prefect of the English Channel and the North Sea. The 71 other migrants, who were also trying to make the illegal crossing, were rescued. The public patrol service boat “Cormoron” took 59 people aboard, including one who was unconscious and “could not be revived,” according to the statement from the French authorities. A British coastguard vessel took a further 13 people aboard, with all those rescued dropped ashore at Calais where they were received by French emergency services....