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

French interior minister Bruno Retailleau said “several people had died” and that a child had been “trampled to death in a boat" in what's believed to have been two separate incidents

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…

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

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

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.