Overview

• An overloaded dinghy carrying about 100 people got into difficulty near Neufchâtel-Hardelot overnight on Saturday.
• Rescuers found two women in cardiac arrest who could not be revived, and roughly 60 others were brought to safety.
• A couple and their child were taken to a hospital in Boulogne-sur-Mer for hypothermia as officials cared for other survivors.
• Boulogne prosecutor Cécile Gressier opened a criminal investigation and said the deceased were two adult Somali women.
• The fatalities lift this year’s Channel death toll to at least 25, with crossings at record pace and only a handful of returns under the UK–France “one in, one out” scheme since August.