2 women die attempting to cross the English Channel from France to the UK

Two women died Saturday morning while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K. on board a makeshift boat carrying other migrants, French authorities said. Rescuers found the women in cardiac arrest but couldn’t save them, the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais region, in northern France, said in a statement. Local media say over 60 migrants were rescued overnight.