Downing Street says the news is "truly horrific" and people smuggling gangs were "taking even more dangerous risks".

French maritime authorities have initiated a rescue operation after a boat carrying over 50 migrants sank off the country's ...

The passengers should not have been in the cabins, and the boat should not have been at anchor ... A fisherman, Pietro Asciutto, who witnessed the sinking, shared his perspective according ...

helped save the man's life that day. Just 15 minutes after the call, English Coast Guard officials were headed toward the sinking boat. The man and others on the boat were rescued and brought to ...

A heavily overcrowded boat with an ... on for dear life”. Drone photos and footage show the incredibly cramped conditions on board the boat, which was almost sinking as it made its way across ...

Turning back “small boats” in the Channel would risk sinking them and leading to more ... are now packing 60 to 70 people, many without life jackets, into the migrant boats as they seek ...

It comes as French authorities rescued some 200 people off the coast of Calais over a 24-hour period between Friday and ...

An asylum seeker who survived Tuesday's fatal small boat sinking in the Channel has told Sky News he would risk his life again to get to the UK. The 25-year-old Eritrean man, called 'Daoud', said it ...

Turning back “small boats” in the Channel would risk sinking them and leading to more migrants dying ... The human trafficking gangs are now packing 60 to 70 people, many without life jackets, into ...