Four people have died while attempting to cross the English Channel to the UK from France.
The French coastguard said a boat carrying 67 people capsized off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France overnight.
The remaining 63 people on board were rescued in an operation involving four ships and a helicopter, a spokesperson said.
The four who died were found unconscious and could not be saved by emergency services, French newspaper La Voix Du Nord reported.
Large numbers of people have continued to cross the Channel this year. Last month, almost 900 people made the journey in a single day.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, mentioned the deaths on social media and said: “The new government had better start moving fast.”
Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has launched a Border Security Command.
It is designed both to strengthen border security and “smash the criminal smuggling gangs making millions out of small boat crossings”, the government website says.
But in what appears to be a setback, Neil Basu, a former national head of counterterrorism, has turned down the chance to head the new initiative, according to The Times newspaper.
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