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More than 300 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel on the day a seven-year-old girl died when a boat capsized, PA Media reports. PA says:

Home Office figures show 327 people made the journey in eight boats on Sunday, taking the provisional total for the year so far to 2,582. This suggests an average of around 41 people per boat.

It comes after the French coastguard said the girl who drowned had been trying to cross the Channel with her pregnant mother, her father and three siblings in a boat carrying 16 people.

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