A French boat with 85 migrants was rescued while trying to cross the Channel France to England on Wednesday, maritime authorities said, the latest in a series of deadly dangerous crossings.
One of the “several” migrant boats heading to sea called for help after it ran aground off the Pas-de-Calais region, the French Channel and the North-Maritime prefecture, the statement said.
A navy tugboat rescued 80 passengers from that ship and evacuated five more from the ship to another location, he said.
Migrants were taken to land in Bonny-sur-Mer and attended by emergency services and border police.
More than 70 migrants have died trying to cross the Channel to Britain this year, according to Pas-de-Calais authorities.
More than 10,000 have reached Britain, whose government has vowed to crack down on populist gangs.
In Germany on Wednesday, the police were executed attack at first light targeting an alleged Syrian and Iraqi-Kurdish criminal network accused of smuggling migrants by boat from France to Britain.