Two dead after overcrowded illegal migrant boat capsizes off French coast

Two women died after a boat carrying about 80 illegal migrants trying to cross to Britain from France capsized near Calais, the local French administration said on Sunday.

"We regret to say that we found two people, two women, who had died," said Christophe Marx, an official for the Pas-de-Calais administration, adding that authorities had rescued the others.