Up to 50 people were supposed to board two boats ahead of the fatal voyage across Channel - but one vessel suffered engine trouble, those in camps in France claimed.
Baran Nouri Hamadamin, 24, was identified as one of 27 migrants who drowned after a flimsy boat capsized in the Channel six miles off Calais in France during stormy weather.
The EU s former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier called on the French government to pull out of the treaty governing Anglo-French border relations as tensions between London and Paris boil over.