A 16-year-old Sudanese migrant who could not swim drowned in the Channel after trying to reach Britain in a tiny makeshift boat using shovels as oars. The body of the teenager washed up on a French beach yesterday as about 150 migrants arrived in Dover after making the crossing aboard rigid hulled inflatable dinghies. A beach walker found the body after dawn at Sangatte, near the mouth of the Channel tunnel. The coastguard and police had been searching during the night after the rescue of the boy’s friend, also 16. The survivor, who was found suffering hypothermia at 1am, said that the pair had attempted to reach England but their small craft had foundered in the waves and his friend did not know how to

Source: The Times August 19, 2020 11:10 UTC