An Iraqi man was found dead, crushed under a truck under which he was hiding, at Dover.
Dauty Artant, a 25-year-old Kosovan, died in Calais in undetermined circumstances.
An Iraqi man was found dead in Dover, crushed under a truck under which he had hidden.
A woman died in hospital after falling under the wheels of a truck in St Leonard’s, Hastings. The other four people hidden in the truck were arrested.
54 Chinese men – Yang Jiao Hua, Li Yong, Lin Zhao Hang, Lin Chen Xing, Sun Dao Xian, Cheng Kam Kwon, Lin Li Guang, Kuo Chien Ming, Xue You Jie, Cai Fang Quing, Ni Yan Hua, Lin Yi Hua, Gao Jun Wei, Zheng Bo Ying, Lin Guo Liang, Cao Xiang Ping, Chen Xing Zhong, He Chang Ming, Xue Di Di, Cao Xian Xin, Jiang Jan Ming, Lin Ming Gui, Jiang Bin, Lin De Bin, Chen Yi Hua, Li Zheng Guang, Lin Ming Kun, He Yu Yuan, Lin Tong Hui, Lin Tong Yong, Ke Yong Min, Ye Qi Ban, Dong Ti Di, Li Xaio Xiang, Lin Bin, Weng Rui Ping, Lin Fa Ming, Lin Bing, Lin Ming Hui, Lin Bin Jian, He Hua Shun, Yang Xin Xian, Lin Feng Di, Yao Zhong Ai, He Ming Qiang, Lin Xian Long, Chen Jin Tian, Lin Xin Chai, Shi Wen Jie, Ding Xiang You, You Long Zhong, Lin Xue Luan, Li Zhen Quan, Guo Ting Xing, and 4 Chinese women – Lin Rul Zhen, Gao Yue Ru, Lin Guang, Ke Mei Zhu, died of suffocation in a truck coming from Zeebrugge (Belgium). Their corpses were discovered by customs officials in Dover. Two survivors were found unconscious in the truck and taken to hospital, in shock and suffering from dehydration.
An unnamed man in his twenties, of unknown nationality, was found dead in Dover docks, possibly run over by the truck he was hiding under.
An Iraqi man in his thirties was struck by a shuttle bus at the Channel Tunnel terminal. According to the newspaper Nord Littoral, he was the first migrant to have died on the site of the Channel Tunnel. He was buried in the communal area of the cemetery of Coquelles. On a wooden plaque, we read a name, partly illegible, ‘H ... Abdulaye Ib …’ and the date of his death: ‘1 February 2001’.
A man, probably Afghan, died of electrocution at the Channel Tunnel terminal in Coquelles. In the communal area of the Coquelles cemetery, we can still read the date of his death on a wooden board, but his first name is no longer readable. We can decipher his surname: Houdin.
25-year-old Ahmadi Ahmad, of Afghan nationality, died in undetermined circumstances in Calais. He was buried in the Coubertin cemetery in Calais.
On 20 August 2001, a Kosovan migrant was traveling irregularly on a ferry crossing the Channel from Ostend (Belgium) to Dover (Great Britain). He was arrested and then immediately embarked on a return trip to Ostend. He managed to evade the police vigilance and jumped off the ferry. He drowned.
