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Four migrants die trying to cross Channel: French officials

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Four migrants die trying to cross Channel: French officials
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Four people died on Thursday off the coast of northern France as they tried to board a small boat to cross the Channel to England, taking the number of such deaths this year to six.



The two men and two women were swept away by the current near the village of Equihen-Plage, regional official Francois-Xavier Lauch said.



Another person was treated for hypothermia, he said, while 37 people were taken into the care of the emergency services.



The nationalities of the four dead were not yet kn

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