A migrant boat attempting to cross the English Channel ran aground off northern France, resulting in two fatalities and 16 injuries, three seriously. The vessel, carrying 82 people, suffered engine failure after departing Hardelot beach and drifted. French authorities are investigating the tragic incident.

A small boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel ran aground on a beach in northern France, leaving two dead and 16 people injured, including three with serious burns, authorities said on Sunday. The vessel, carrying 82 people, set out overnight from Hardelot beach, a few kilometres south of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, but the engine failed and it began to drift, Christophe Marx, Secretary General of the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, told reporters. A French maritime gendarmerie....