ReportChild and Two Women Die on Channel Boat Carrying 105Aired September 28, 2026 at 5:57 PM UTCWritten September 28, 2026 at 6:22 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:11A child and two women died aboard a channel-bound boat carrying 105 people.0:15Nine of the other passengers were treated after reaching Calais, and the cause of0:19death remains unconfirmed.0:20Did the boat overturn, and how did the three die?0:23The child was 10 years old.0:24The two women were each 30.0:26A later account identified the child as a boy, but their names and nationalities0:30have not been established.0:31Subtracting the three who died leaves 102 other passengers, not 102 people confirmed0:36uninjured.0:37The boat left Blériot Plage, near Calais, on September 28th.0:40A distress call followed as it got into difficulty.0:43Accounts place the incident off Wiscente or off Sangate, but those descriptions do0:47not establish its exact position.0:49An emergency medical team was flown by helicopter to the rescue boat and the0:53survivors were brought to Calais.0:55There is no established minute-by-minute account of the rescue or of the survivors'0:59later condition.1:00The prefecture's initial assessment suggested the three may have been trampled or1:04crushed aboard the crowded boat.1:06Some accounts say the vessel capsized.1:08The term shipwreck also appears in a local account.1:11None of those descriptions establishes that it overturned or proves how the three1:15died.1:15An investigation has been launched to determine the exact cause of death.1:19The medical figures do not yet fit together.1:21Nine other passengers were reported treated in Calais.1:24A provisional fire service assessment counted four lightly injured, and another1:28account described eight injured.1:30Those may reflect different groups or reporting stages, but they have not been1:33reconciled.1:34Treatment does not by itself establish nine injuries.1:37The prefecture warned that the death toll was provisional.1:39The latest time-stamped account at 1711 UTC on September 28th still counted three1:45deaths.1:45It did not confirm a fourth.1:47An initial account put migrant deaths in 2026 at 20 following this incident, against1:5221 over the same period in 2025.1:54Another account gave at least 24 for 2026.1:58The counting periods and definitions have not been reconciled, so those numbers2:02cannot support a settled year-to-year trend.2:05Three deaths are reported.2:06Whether the boat overturned, the final injury count, and the exact cause of death2:10remain unresolved.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗