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Man, aged 19, charged in UK after Channel migrant boat tragedy

file photo: people believed to be migrants walk to the border force processing centre after they disembark a royal national lifeboat institution (rnli) lifeboat after being rescued from the english channel while crossing from france, in dover

A 19-year-old man has been charged with abetting illegal immigration after four migrants died trying to cross the Channel into Britain when the inflatable boat they were using started to sink.

One of those who died in Wednesday’s tragedy was a teenager, regional authorities said. Thirty-nine migrants, including 12 children, were rescued by a British fishing boat.

Police said on Sunday that a suspect who they named as Ibrahima Bah, of no fixed address, had been charged with facilitating attempted illegal entry into Britain.

He will appear in court on Monday, police added.

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