
A raft with over 30 migrants sank in the English Channel during the morning hours. Authorities in Great Britain are preparing for a large number of victims in the English Channel, and have already launched an operation to search for dead bodies and survivors from the air. It is learned that the boat with immigrants ran into difficulties in the early hours of this morning, when it broke apart and sank.
The first calls to the Coast Guard came in around 3:00 am. The Marine Traffic Radar website showed a group of ships in the channel between Lydd in Kent and Cap Gris Nez in France, as well as a coastguard helicopter are at the scene including two RNLI lifeboats from Ramsgate and Rye, the Royal Navy patrol boat HMS Severn, a French patrol vessel of the Kermorvan coastguard as well as two fishing vessels. GB News was reporting this morning Ashford Hospital in Kent had been told to clear the site ahead of 'multiple casualties'.
An ambulance was seen pulling up to Dover Harbor near where migrants are usually brought ashore at the former aircraft terminal at around 7.40am. According to the British media, there were more than 30 people in the raft. It has not yet been reported about the identity of the persons suspected to have drowned in the canal.