Several rescue operations took place during the night from Wednesday to Thursday.
Three rescues within a few hours. The regional operations center for surveillance and rescue rescued 143 migrants in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, the Channel and North Sea maritime prefecture said in a press release.
Three rescue operations
A first intervention took place in the middle of the night. 43 people, who went into the sea off the beach of Merlimont, were rescued by the Berck National Sea Rescue Company (SNSM). The castaways were then dropped off in Berck early in the morning. However, three people fell overboard as the boat left and were not found.
Off Leffrinckoucke this Thursday morning, a boat with 50 people on board began to sink in the middle of the sandbanks, before being rescued. “The survivors were left in Dunkirk at the end of the morning, where they were assisted by the departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS) and the border police (PAF)”, reports the prefecture.
The coastal surveillance brigade of the Boulogne-sur-Mer maritime gendarmerie and the coastal maritime surveillance launch also came to the aid this morning to 45 people whose boat was adrift after several engine damage. They were left at the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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