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Humanitarian groups demand safe routes to UK after five deaths in Channel
UN and Council for Europe add voices to outcry as more people drown within hours of ‘cruel’ Rwanda bill being passed
Humanitarian groups have called for new safe routes to Britain after five people died trying to cross the Channel within hours of ministers passing the controversial Rwanda bill.
A child and four adults drowned on Tuesday while trying to reach the UK in a boat from Wimereux, in France. More than 110 people were said to have been on board the vessel when it left the French coastline at 5am.
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