UK and France left rescue of more than 30 drowning migrants in Channel to each other, report claims

French and British emergency services passed responsibility on to each other as the worst migrant drowning in English Channel history unfolded, a new report has claimed.

On 24 November 2021, a rubber dinghy carrying 34 migrants sank in the English Channel, killing 31 people and an unborn baby, despite repeatedly desperate calls to coastguard services on both sides of the Channel.

A preliminary investigation, carried out by a law firm on behalf of some of the relatives, has uncovered communications between the British and French emergency services which suggests neither side took responsibility for the unfolding disaster.

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