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Fishermen pull 31 people from Channel as boat capsizes

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Fishermen pull 31 people from Channel as boat capsizes

Fishermen pull 31 people from Channel as boat capsizes

A group of fishermen pulled 31 people alive from the English Channel after a migrant boat capsized on Wednesday.

Ben Squire, who owns Plymouth-based boat Oceanic Drifter Fishing, says a “rigid inflatable boat” was “sinking very, very near” to where the skipper of his boat was fishing.

Report by Jonesia.

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