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European officials meet in bid to curb migrant smuggling after Channel tragedy
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Top European migration officials are holding an emergency meeting on Sunday in the French port of Calais to find ways to better fight migrant smuggling.
It comes after 27 people died trying to cross the English Channel to Britain in an overcrowded inflatable boat.
UK officials will be notably absent from the gathering at the Calais City Hall, after Wednesday’s sinking, the deadliest of its kind, prompted a new political crisis between Britain and France.
The neighbours accuse each other of not doing enough to deter people from taking the treacherous journey.
France is carrying out a national organised crime investigation into the sinking, the deadliest migration accident on the Channel on record. Iraqi Kurds and at least one Somali were
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