English Channel's deadliest crossing disaster of 2024: At least 12 migrants die after overcrowded boat with 70 people onboard and not enough life jackets 'ripped open' and capsized

Unfortunately, the bottom of the boat ripped open,

said Olivier Barbarin, mayor of Le Portel near Boulogne-sur-Mer, where a first aid post was set up to treat victims

Unfortunately, every day is like this for us. The smugglers — a criminal network — continue with insistence to send people to their deaths in the channel. It really is unacceptable, scandalous. And it is high time that a lasting solution is found with Britain,

Mayor Jean-Luc Dubaële said by phone