{"id":21055,"date":"2025-09-29T03:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21055"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:05:02","slug":"young-migrant-found-dead-on-beach-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21055","title":{"rendered":"Young migrant found dead on beach in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A young migrant was found dead early Sunday on a beach in northern France, the latest in a rising number of deaths in attempted Channel crossings, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The body of a young man was discovered on the beach of Saint-Etienne-au-Mont. It is highly likely that he was a migrant who attempted the crossing to Great Britain last night,&#8221; the Pas-de-Calais prefecture said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation will need to determine if there is a connection between the death and an attempted crossing that occurred slightly farther north, near Equihen-Plage, local prosecutor Cecile Gressier told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Around 50 migrants who failed to set sail were rescued early Sunday morning at Equihen-Plage, and a 49-year-old woman suffering from hypothermia was taken to hospital, said Isabelle Fradin-Thirode, an official in nearby Montreuil-sur-Mer.<\/p>\n<p>This latest incident brings the number of Channel crossing deaths to at least 27 this year, according to an AFP tally based on official data.<\/p>\n<p>Two Somali women died Saturday during one of these attempted crossings near Boulogne-sur-Mer.<\/p>\n<p>The body of another migrant was recovered Saturday morning in the town of Gravelines, next to Dunkirk. His death may have occurred several days earlier, according to the Dunkirk prosecutor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>These perilous crossings are made on makeshift boats, just a few metres long, and often referred to as &#8220;small boats&#8221;. The vessels are frequently overloaded, and their departures chaotic.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, among the numerous departures made possible by favourable weather conditions, 14 needed rescue, according to the French maritime prefecture (PREMAR). AFP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young migrant was found dead early Sunday on a beach in northern France, the latest in a rising number of deaths in attempted Channel crossings, local authorities said. &#8220;The body of a young man was discovered on the beach of Saint-Etienne-au-Mont. It is highly likely that he was a migrant who attempted the crossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}