One man from Sudan was charged with assisting unlawful immigration, and he and another man from South Sudan were charged with entering the UK illegally
British police on Friday, April 26, charged two men arrested after five migrants, including a girl, died this week trying to cross the Channel from France. Three men, a woman and a seven-year-old girl lost their lives in the early hours of Tuesday in the sea near the northern French town of Wimereux. They had been in a packed boat that set off before dawn but whose engine stopped a few hundred meters from the beach.
A South Sudanese national, aged 22, has been charged with assisting unlawful immigration, the National Crime Agency said. Both he and a second man, also 22, from Sudan, were charged with entering the United Kingdom illegally. A third man who was arrested, an 18-year-old from Sudan, had been bailed pending further inquiries, the agency added.
Several people then fell into the water during Tuesday’s tragedy. About 50 people were rescued and brought ashore but emergency services were unable to resuscitate the five. Fifteen people have died this year trying to cross the busy shipping lane from northern France to southern England, according to reporter. That is already more than the 12 who died in the whole of last year.
