One person has died and several have been taken to hospital after a small boat sank in the English Channel.
Authorities said 50 people have been rescued after their boat struggled in extreme weather conditions on Saturday morning.
A number of people were brought off lifeboats on stretchers. French authorities said six people were recovered in a serious condition with one, who was evacuated by helicopter to hospital in Calais, later pronounced dead.
The statement from France’s Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea said two British ships and several French vessels were involved in the operation.
The number of migrants crossing the British Channel over the last five-and-a-half years was said surpassed 100,000 on Thursday, as the number of small boat crossings hit a daily high for 2023.
Nearly 16,000 people have crossed the Channel in a small boat this year.