France rescues 157 migrants from burning boat in English Channel
French coastguards rescued 157 people from a boat carrying migrants that caught fire in the English Channel early on Tuesday morning near the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, the local administration said in a statement.
Inti Landauro/Reuters
4 August 2026 at 18:32:59
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PARIS - French coastguards rescued 157 people from a boat carrying migrants that caught fire in the English Channel early on Tuesday morning near the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, the local administration said in a statement.
The people on board the boat were rescued by three coastguard ships, which will take them back to the port, added the statement.
Five other people had been rescued from the same boat a few hours earlier by coastguards.
-Reporting by Inti Landauro;Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters
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