Baby dead and 65 rescued in Channel shipwreck

A babe has died aft a vessel attempting to transverse the English Channel sank connected Thursday night, French authorities say.

Officials said the overloaded vessel carrying migrants started sinking disconnected the seashore of Wissant successful bluish France.

Rescuers called to the country rescued 65 people, including immoderate who were successful the water.

Searches to find much radical astatine oversea recovered an unconscious baby, who was aboriginal declared dead, officials said.

The section prefecture said successful a statement: "Rescuers recovered that the boat, which was heavy loaded, was successful trouble and that immoderate of the radical were successful the water.

"Rescuers began to retrieve the radical successful difficulty.

"At the aforesaid time, further searches were carried retired to find radical who could beryllium stranded astatine sea."

It was past that the babe was discovered, the connection added.

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