A Sudanese migrant has been arrested on suspicion of endangering life after four people died attempting to cross the Channel in a small boat on Thursday.
Two men and two women died yesterday when they tried to board a “water taxi”, a type of dinghy used by smugglers to pick up migrants off the coast of France.
The 27-year-old man was arrested on Friday morning at Manston processing centre in Kent on suspicion of the new offence of endangering others during a journey to the UK by sea.
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