London: Almost 70 people were trying to get into a small boat attempting to launch from a beach when it overturned in the early hours of Sunday morning, French media reports said. 

Dozens were pulled from the water during overnight rescue efforts in Wimereux, to the south of Calais.

Foreign Secretary David Cameron said it was “heartbreaking”.

Local authorities say the four dead were from Iraq and Syria.

One other person is in critical condition and has been transferred to a hospital in nearby Boulogne-sur-Mer, a spokesperson from the French maritime prefecture told the BBC.

People got into trouble almost immediately after the boat departed the French coast for England at around 02:00 local time (01:00 GMT). News Source by BBC.

London News Desk: “Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces—together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands—successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways,” the president said in a statement released by the White House. CNN telecasting this news earlier and confirmed by CNN BBC.

The Earth in 2023 was 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer than in pre-industrial times, the EU’s climate and weather monitoring service says. Scientists are concerned the world is moving closer to long-term warming of 1.5 degrees.

PM Rishi Sunak Picture

In Lancashire yesterday, He outlined what’s at stake for our country.

He says, We either stick to the plan, which has seen inflation halve, wages rise faster than prices and our economy outperform countries like Germany – so we can build a brighter future for our country. We can go back to square one with Keir Starmer, who doesn’t have a plan for the UK.