DNA tests are being carried out on the bodies of the 27 people who died after their dinghy sank while crossing to Britain last Wednesday, on what was the deadliest day of the migration crisis.
A Iraqi Kurdish mother and her four children who are believed to have died in the Channel boat tragedy told MailOnline just a week earlier of their dream of starting a new life in the UK.
Mohammed Shekha, 21 (right), had been travelling to the UK to find a job to pay for younger sister Fatima s (left) medical bills, which doctors told them would cost thousands of pounds.
Mohammed Shekha, 21, detailed a shocking series of desperate calls to French and British authorities and claimed both denied responsibility for the rescue.