At least 13 migrants dead after boat ‘ripped apart’ in Channel, French mayor says

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Some 13 migrants have died after their boat ripped apart trying to cross the English Channel, a French mayor has said.

Olivier Barbarin, chief of French coastal town Le Portel, near Boulogne-sur-Mer where casualties are being treated, said: “Unfortunately, the bottom of the boat ripped open.