Migrants on France's Channel coast undeterred by latest deaths
Aug 14, 2023
Loon-Plage [France], August 14: "Crossing the Channel, it's playing with our lives," Hajji Mahmud acknowledged. But despite the dangers, the Afghan migrant remained determined to attempt the crossing, even after the deaths of at least six of his countrymen early Saturday when their vessel sank. In the makeshift camp at Loon-Plage on the north coast of France, some 15 tents were scattered behind an embankment near a pile of burning rubbish. Mahmud lives there with a group of other Afghans, some of them very young, and hoping for a better life in Britain. "If we had a good life in Afghanistan, a good government, a good education system.," he said. He entered the European Union through Croatia.
