At least four people have died, including a child while attempting to cross the English Channel on small boats.

French media reports the child, understood to be under the age of four, died off the coast of Boulogne.


The three other migrants are reported to have died in a separate incident when a small boat got into difficulty in the area of Calais.

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Stock image - workers remove small boat

At least four are thought to be dead after the boat capsized (stock)

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