Migrant dies after being ‘crushed’ on overcrowded boat before he could continue his journey to Britain

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A woman who was rescued from an overcrowded migrant boat along with 34 others has died.

About 75 people were on board the “very busy” migrant boat off the coast of Calais when passengers on the inflatable dinghy called emergency services at around 5am this morning.

An emergency service source told the Daily Mail: “She was nowhere near the water but was crushed by the amount of people around her.

“Migrants are drowning in the water, but the new phenomenon of people dying in the boats is becoming more and more serious.”

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An RNLI lifeboat and a Border Force vessel carrying groups of people believed to be migrants wait to be offloaded in Dover, Kent (archive photo)

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A spokesman for the French emergency services said: “Rescuers saw an unconscious woman on board. She was quickly taken off the boat and given first aid, but she died on the way to hospital.”

The Maritime Prefecture said the boat called for assistance off the coast of Calais. The patrol boat Armoise, from the Maritime Gendarmerie, and the French customs coast guard boat Kermorvan arrived at the scene at around 5:30 a.m. The victim was taken by helicopter to hospital in Boulogne-sur-Mer, but “she was unfortunately pronounced dead.”

A spokesman said: “It was during the transfer of those who wanted to get off the boat that the rescue services noticed that there was an unconscious person on board

“Several people still on board the boat refused to help. Given the risks of falling overboard or injuring people in the event of forced intervention, it was decided to allow the other people on this boat to continue their journey to England.”

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Migrants crossing the Channel (file image)

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The news marks the sixth asylum seeker to die in the Channel between July 12 and 19 in three separate boat accidents.

On July 12, four migrants drowned overnight after being transported on an overcrowded boat carrying 67 migrants off the coast of Boulonge sur Mer, also in northern France.

The dead were not wearing life jackets when they died, prompting police to investigate the people smugglers, who were charging around £1,000 per person.

Instead of a life jacket, everyone was given a poorly inflated inner tube to hold on to in case of emergency.

Dr Peter William Walsh, a senior researcher at the Migration Observatory, said: “There certainly seems to be a seasonal factor, with the second half of the year typically seeing more arrivals than the first half.

“The weather is calmer, with higher temperatures and fewer waves, but even the causes of this seasonal effect are not yet fully understood.”

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