Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has posted to X following the news that four more migrants have died after trying to cross the English Channel.
Yvette Cooper posted:
It is appalling that more lives have been lost in the Channel today, including a young child, as criminal smuggler gangs continue to organise these dangerous boat crossings. The gangs do not care if people live or die - this is a terrible trade in lives.
I have been in touch with the French interior minister @BrunoRetailleau today & we met in Italy at G7 this week to discuss our determination to increase cooperation & law enforcement to pursue & dismantle criminal gangs who undermine border security & put so many lives at risk .
The authorities said that the four migrants were found in an "unconscious" state and were likely "trampled to death" in two separate boats that had engine failures.
French interior minister Bruno Retailleau called the deaths a "terrible tragedy", adding that people smugglers "have the blood of these people on their hands".
https://twitter.com/YvetteCooperMP/status/1842580189055975763
