Article 66VAQ ‘You could see the panic’: how the Channel small boat incident unfolded

‘You could see the panic’: how the Channel small boat incident unfolded

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Diane Taylor and Dan Sabbagh
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Experts said lessons appeared to have been learned from previous incidents as teams scrambled into action after dinghy capsized

The emergency call came through at 2.53am. Please help me bro, please, please, please. We are in the water. We have a family."

The unidentified man, on a stricken dinghy, used WhatsApp to contact the French NGO Utopia 56, a humanitarian association, which works to support migrants in the camps in northern France.

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