'Just God, the water and us': risking the Channel 'death route' to BritainFor three weeks, two AFP teams followed two migrants -- from Kuwait and Iraq -- in their bid to cross the Channel to BritainCALAIS (FRANCE) - Britain! After years trekking through countless countries, weeks in a filthy camp on the French coast, seven gruelling hours on a small boat tossed about by the Channel, Walid has finally made it. "Even if this journey is nicknamed 'the death route', we want to cross. When it's good weather, they go and wash in the nearby canal, and clean their clothes in the murky water. On the other side of the Channel, Falah is distraught.

Source: Bangkok Post September 17, 2020 02:48 UTC