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Police Forensic officers at the RNLI station at the Port of Dover on Wednesday.
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19-year-old charged in connection with migrant boat deaths in the English Channel
Four people were pronounced dead and 39 people were rescued following the incident on Wednesday.
A TEENAGER HAS been charged with facilitating attempted illegal entry to the UK after four people died when a migrant boat capsized in the English Channel on Wednesday.
Ibrahima Bah, 19, of no fixed address, has been remanded in custody and will appear before Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on Monday, Kent Police said.
A major rescue operation off the Kent coast began at 2.16am on 14 December after reports of a boat in distress, with the Royal Navy, French navy, Coastguard, RNLI lifeboats, ambulance service and police involved.
A total of 39 people were safely brought to shore, while four others were pronounced dead.
The circumstances surrounding the deaths are being investigated by detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, assisted by the National Crime Agency.
A man was arrested in connection with the incident on Friday.
Today, Kent Police said the Crown Prosecution Service authorised a charge against Bah of knowingly facilitating the attempted arrival in the UK of people he knew or had reasonable cause to believe were asylum seekers.
Police are continuing to work to establish the identity of those who died and locate their next of kin.
