Forty-year-old suffers cardiac arrest after boat carrying 50 people deflates shortly after leaving France
A 40-year-old man died on Sunday trying to cross the Channel from northern France to the UK.
According to the prefecture in Calais the man was of Indian heritage and suffered a cardiac arrest after the boat he was in with about 50 other men, women and children deflated minutes after leaving the French shore.
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