London | A rescue operation off the English coast has rescued two migrants but did not, however, find a third, missing at sea, we learned Wednesday from the British Ministry of the Interior.
According to the daily “The Times”, citing sources of the British border police, two other migrants are reported missing in French waters.
Two Somali nationals aboard a small boat were rescued Monday off the city of Harwich (East England), but searches to try to find a third man, reported to have fallen at sea in the waters international, ended in vain early Tuesday afternoon, according to the Interior Ministry.
“This is a reminder of the extreme dangers of crossing the Channel on board small boats and the disregard for inhuman life shown by criminal groups,” a ministry spokesperson said in a statement.
In mid-August, the sinking of a boat caused the death of an Eritrean migrant. Last year, four members of an Iranian Kurdish family died and their one-year-old child went missing before his body was found, according to British media, several months later on the Norwegian coast.
Tightening immigration conditions is a major promise from Boris Johnson’s government following Brexit. But despite his promises to make illegal Channel crossings impractical, around 20,000 migrants have arrived by this very dangerous route in the UK since the start of the year, according to the PA agency, more than double the number of migrants. last year.