Two men have been charged in connection with the small boats crossing that led to the deaths of five people on a beach in France.
A seven-year-old girl, a woman and three men died in the incident off the coast of Wimereux in northern France.
Yien Both, a 22-year-old from South Sudan, has been charged with assisting unlawful immigration and attempting to arrive in the UK without valid entry clearance.
Tajdeen Adbulaziz Juma, a 22-year-old Sudanese national, has been charged with attempting to arrive in the UK without valid entry clearance.
Both men have been remanded in custody and are expected to appear before Folkestone Magistrates later today.
A third man, an 18-year-old from Sudan, was also arrested over the incident and has been bailed pending further enquiries.
A dinghy carrying more than 100 people set off from the French coastal town of Wimereux at around 6am on Tuesday but got into difficulty.
The boat stopped on a sandbar only a few hundred metres from the shore.
Around 49 people were rescued – but 58 others refused to leave the boat and continued their journey towards the UK, the coastguard said in a statement.
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