A small boat full of migrants capsized while crossing the English Channel. A 7-year-old girl drowned in the shipwreck.

According to French authorities, there were 16 people on board headed from the north of the country to Great Britain. The boat "was not of an adequate size to carry so many occupants - the authority states in a statement - and it capsized immediately after some people had boarded, a few kilometers from the coast".

The parents of the little victim, who were traveling with three other children, were taken to a hospital in Dunkirk.

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