French interior minister Bruno Retailleau said “several people had died” and that a child had been “trampled to death in a boat" in what's believed to have been two separate incidents

A two-year-old boy's body was found on a migrant boat in the English Channel, French authorities say.

Olivier Barbarin, the mayor of the coastal town of Le Portel in northern France, said the child was around four years old.

A two-year-old boy was 'trampled to death' in a double tragedy in the English Channel in which a woman and two men were also killed, French authorities have confirmed.

The French interior minister Bruno Retailleau has issued confirmation about the incident on X

French authorities said four migrants, including a 2-year-old child, died Saturday in two separate incidents as they attempted to cross the English Channel toward Britain. France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau deplored a “terrible tragedy" on X, saying that the child “was trampled to death in a boat." “The smugglers have…

In two separate tragedies, maritime authorities retrived the body of a two-year-old who had been crushed to death and three adults who had also "probably" been crushed in overcrowded boats trying to cross…

A two-year-old boy was crushed to death and several adult migrants died in two separate tragedies overnight when their overcrowded boats tried to cross the Channel to Britain, French officials have said.

A two-year-old boy was among four people to die in "two tragedies" involving small boats off the coast of France, the Prefect of Pas-de-Calais region has confirmed.