1 person dies when a boat overloaded with migrants sinks in the English Channel

PARIS AP One person died when a boat overloaded with transients broke up during an attempted overnight spanning of the English Channel the th migrant killed so far this year in the treacherous waterway between France and Britain French and British rescue services together picked up people alive overnight Monday who were pitched into the sea off the Pas de Calais coast in northern France among them a woman and her child who required hospital recovery for hypothermia in the French port of Boulogne French maritime officials reported in a report A French Navy helicopter also spotted a body in the water that was picked up by a British lifeboat the th person killed while attempting the bridging this year according to the French maritime government count French maritime government noted they sent out an urgency message for assistance when the boat sank prompting British boats and an aircraft to join the rescue operation with French vessels and the French helicopter carrying a diagnostic squad Source