A two-year-old boy's body was found on a migrant boat in the English Channel, French authorities say.

A two-year-old boy was crushed to death and several adult migrants died in two separate tragedies overnight when their overcrowded boats tried to cross the Channel to Britain, French officials have said.

The boat, carrying nearly 90 people, had suffered engine failure off the coast

The latest tragedies bring to 51 the number of migrants who have died attempting to reach England from France so far this year.

The French interior minister Bruno Retailleau has issued confirmation about the incident on X

In two separate tragedies, maritime authorities retrived the body of a two-year-old who had been crushed to death and three adults who had also "probably" been crushed in overcrowded boats trying to cross…

French interior minister Bruno Retailleau said “several people had died” and that a child had been “trampled to death in a boat" trying to cross the English Channel

French Coast Guard officials on Saturday announced that several migrants were killed while a two-year-old boy was crushed to death in two separate tragedies in the English Channel...

Tragic deaths of four migrants, including a two-year-old child, in separate Channel crossing attempts reported by French authorities.

Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A 2-year-old boy was "trampled to death" and three other migrants seeking to cross the English Channel from France to Britain also died aboard crowded small boats while at sea, French authorities said Saturday.

Olivier Barbarin, the mayor of the coastal town of Le Portel in northern France, said the child was around four years old.

French authorities said four migrants, including a 2-year-old child, died Saturday in two separate incidents as they attempted to cross the English Channel toward Britain. France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau deplored a “terrible tragedy" on X, saying that the child “was trampled to death in a boat." “The smugglers have…

A two-year-old boy was 'trampled to death' in a double tragedy in the English Channel in which a woman and two men were also killed, French authorities have confirmed.