Migrants are escorted ashore by a RNLI Lifeboat, after having crossed the channel, in Dungeness, Britain, November 24, 2021. Photo by Reuters/Henry Nicholls

 

All 27 migrants who drowned when their boat sank in the Channel last month while trying to reach Britain have now been identified, the Paris prosecutors office announced on Thursday.

 

The final identification made was of a 29-year-old Vietnamese man, the Paris authorities said.

 

Most of the victims of the boat accident were Iraqi Kurds, according to the 26 earlier identifications. Four Afghan men, three Ethiopians, a Somalian, an Egyptian and an Iranian Kurd were also drowned in the disaster.

 

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Some people were trying to get into the U.K by boat because they didnt qualify for a visa and would have been refused entry had they arrived at airport immigration and do got a boat across