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A former paratrooper who set out from Punta Arenas in Chile in 1998 is walking the final miles through Lincolnshire. He has swum the English Channel, crossed the Bering Strait and the jungles of the Darién Gap. Waiting for him at home are his son, granddaughter, father and mother.
Otabek YusupovDuncan Capps, commander of the UK Home Office Border Force, said that around 3,800 migrants are in two camps in northern France awaiting crossing to Britain — nearly twice the usual number. Meanwhile, the number of Channel crossings this year has fallen by 43%.
Sevara AzamovaUK Border Security Commander Duncan Capps told a parliamentary committee that a mass death of migrants crossing the English Channel is 'only a matter of time'. He linked this to the growing size of boats and the number of people on board: this year a record 230 migrants were spotted on a single inflatable boat. Smugglers are shifting routes southward, to Normandy, and the number of migrants in northern France has doubled.
Sevara Azamova
