five people have died after a boat carrying migrants got into trouble after attempting to launch from a beach south of calais, according to reports in france. the incident happened near wimereux in the early hours of sunday morning. french paper la voix du nord said 72 people, including 10 children, were rescued and taken to calais while one person was taken to hospital in boulogne. here in the uk, fewer than one in 10 injuries involving e scooters are being reported to the police that s according to data analysed by the independent parliamentary advisory council for transport safety which says more accurate figures are needed to understand the dangers that they pose. jon donnison has this report. e scooters a decade ago, almost unheard of. these days, they re a common sight. but now a charity that advises the government says injuries from e scooter accidents are being under reported and data needs to be collected more rigorously.
have now had to take a much longer route around africa. this is adding, you know, not only time that extra costs to those trips. it is something that the americans and others who have been involved in these attacks have been saying, that they are trying to protect, you know, freedom of navigation and obviously trying to contain the possible economic impact that these attacks that have been carried out by the houthis could have if those attacks continue. four people have died after a boat carrying migrants got into trouble after attempting to launch from a beach south of calais, according to reports in france. the incident happened in the early hours of sunday morning. french paper la voix du nord said 72 people, including 10 children,
palestinian civilians and palestinian communities. at the same time, you know, there has been a lot of frustration among the families of the hostages who remain in captivity in gaza. and who believe that the government hasn t, you know, made the release of the hostages a priority. we saw that massive protest yesterday in tel aviv, more than 120,000 people gathered to urge the government to do more for the release of these hostages. all the government to do more for the release of these hostages. al middle east correspondent release of these hostages. al middle east correspondent there. four people have died after a boat carrying migrants got into trouble after attempting to launch from a beach south of calais, according to reports in france. the incident happened near wimereux in the early hours of sunday morning. french paper la voix du nord said 72 people, including 10 children, were rescued and taken to calais while one person was taken to hospital in boulogne. here is the lates
french paper la voix du nord said 72 people, including 10 children, were rescued and taken to calais while one person was taken to hospital in boulogne. here is the latest from our correspondent simonjones. this happened at about one o clock in the morning, around 70 migrants were trying to get on board a boat which was destined to try to get across the channel heading towards the uk. the boat was in pretty shallow water close to the beach at a place called wimereux, between calais and boulogne. but so many people were trying to get on board that the boat started sinking and scores of people were thrown into the water. now, because this happened close to the beach, pretty quickly the emergency services were on the scene. police officers in the fire service were able to start pulling people from the water but you can imagine the scene in pitch black. it was very cold, the sea temperature this time of year is only around 8 degrees and four people ended up losing their lives in the chaos