[The Guardian] Packed small boat embarks on Channel crossing near Dunkirk – in pictures

Packed small boat embarks on Channel crossing near Dunkirk – in pictures

Photographer Sameer Al-Doumy witnessed a dramatic embarkation of people into the Channel at Gravelines, near Dunkirk, as smugglers provoked a scramble for an inflatable boat. Since the beginning of the year, more than 33,500 people have made the perilous crossing to the UK, traversing one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world where more than 400 commercial vessels pass each day

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