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4 confirmed dead as migrant boat capsizes in English Channel

Forensic tents erected at the RNLI station at the Port of Dover, Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022, following a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent following an incident involving a small boat likely to have been carrying migrants. Helicopters and lifeboats have been dispatched to the English Channel off the coast of Kent in southern England to rescue a small boat in distress, authorities said Wednesday. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP) Forensic tents erected at the RNLI station at the Port of Dover, Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022, following a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent following an incident involving a small boat likely to have been carrying migrants. Helicopters and lifeboats have been dispatched to the English Channel off the coast of Kent in southern England to rescue a small boat in distress, authorities said Wednesday. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP) The Dover lifeboat returns to the Port of Dover after a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent, Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022, following an incident involving a small boat likely to have been carrying migrants. Helicopters and lifeboats have been dispatched to the English Channel off the coast of Kent in southern England to rescue a small boat in distress, authorities said Wednesday. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP) An ambulance arrives at the Port of Dover, after a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent, Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022, following an incident involving a small boat likely to have been carrying migrants. Helicopters and lifeboats have been dispatched to the English Channel off the coast of Kent in southern England to rescue a small boat in distress, authorities said Wednesday. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP) Emergency staff remove a stretcher and body bag from the Dover lifeboat after it returned to the Port of Dover following a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent, Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022, following an incident involving a small boat likely to have been carrying migrants. Helicopters and lifeboats have been dispatched to the English Channel off the coast of Kent in southern England to rescue a small boat in distress, authorities said Wednesday. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP) Members of the Dover lifeboat place a body bag on a stretcher after returning to the Port of Dover after a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent, Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022, following an incident involving a small boat likely to have been carrying migrants. Helicopters and lifeboats have been dispatched to the English Channel off the coast of Kent in southern England to rescue a small boat in distress, authorities said Wednesday. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)
4 confirmed dead as migrant boat capsizes in English Channel