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At least six people died and more than 50 were rescued after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France capsized early on Saturday, local authorities said.P)..
(0400 GMT) as dozens of migrant boats tried to make the crossing at the same time. ..
"We saved 54 people, including one woman," said Anne Thorel, a volunteer who was on one of the rescue boats, describing the migrants' frantic efforts to bail water out of their sinking vessel using their shoes..
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said junior Maritime Affairs Minister Herve Berville would head to Calais, near where one of the migrant boats capsized..
A UK Border Force vessel and two lifeboats rescued all those on board another small boat in the Channel in a separate incident on Saturday, the British coastguard added..
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