One survivor said they made calls to French and British police asking for help but were told to call the other. Twenty-seven people died.
A survivor of a deadly migration accident in the English Channel said they called English and French authorities for help after their boat capsized but was told by both sides to call the other.
Mohammed Ibrahim Zada, a Kurdish migrant from Iran, was on the boat when it started to fill with water. He told Kurdish Rudaw media that France and Britain ignored their calls for help. Britain's Home Office said British authorities responded to every call made that day and did not ignore the migrant's plea for help. Dan O'Mahoney, Britain's clandestine Channel threat commander, said there were multiple migrant boats in the water during that time.
"Our mobiles were already in the water," Omar said."But one of us had his mobile still working, he called, and the [British] authorities told him to send the location. But before he does that, the mobile went into the water, too, and we could not send anything.''has proposed legislation that would give authorities patrolling the English Channel the power to turn away boats carrying migrants.
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