The new date is Nov 24, 2021.
At least 27 people died when their boat sank in the English Channel, the largest loss of life this year, as a record-breaking surge of people cross the channel.
An inflatable craft carrying migrant men, women and children crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel.
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According to French police, more than 27 migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Calais.
The death toll is likely to rise, though the mayor of nearby Téteghem told the BBC that some passengers on the dinghy survived.
A rescue operation was launched by the French coast guard after a local fisherman called.
The French fisherman said they saw more migrants crossing the channel on Wednesday in order to take advantage of the calm seas.
Boris Johnson called an emergency meeting in response to the news.
The disaster in the Channel is a tragedy, according to a translation from France 24. My thoughts are with the many missing and injured victims of criminal traffickers.
The key background.
More than 25,000 people have crossed the English Channel into the UK so far this year, according to the British government. There were seven confirmed dead or missing before Wednesday. A record number of migrants crossed into Britain from France by water in a single day. The governments of London and Paris are in a dispute over fishing rights.
French police say more than 20 people are dead after a migrant boat sinks.
