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Fourmigrants drowned in the Channel overnight off France’s northern coast while trying to cross to Britain, French maritime police said on Friday. A navy patrol boat went to the site off of Boulogne-sur-Mer after being alerted that several migrants had fallen into the sea, maritime police told AFP. Four bodies were pulled from the water, but people were also rescued, the police added. The northern Pas-de-Calais region’s prefect, Jacques Billant said the four dead men could be “Somalian, Eritrean or Ethiopian” and that nine more people had been taken to hospital in a serious condition. Billant …

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