Charities criticise lack of safer options after 10,000 migrants cross Channel
by Haroon Siddique and agency from on (#5N08K)
Warning that risk to life is shameful' as people in small boats so far this year include record 482 on one day
Charities have criticised a shameful" lack of safe alternatives for migrants after the number making the life-threatening journey across the Channel in small boats this year surpassed 10,000.
The total includes at least 482 people who succeeded in crossing the Dover strait on Wednesday onboard 21 boats - a record for a single day.
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