Isibalo sabafuduki abangekho emthethweni abasebenzisa izikebhe noma izikebhe ezincane ukuwela i-English Channel sikhule kakhulu kulo nyaka, naphezu kwezingozi ezinkulu zezinhlekelele zasolwandle ezingase zibe khona.
Ngokusho kwamaphoyisa aseFrance nezikhulu zendawo, okungenani abantu abangu-27 bashonile enhlekeleleni yakamuva, ngesikhathi bezama ukuwela i-English Channel besuka eFrance beya eNgilandi ngesikhathi isikebhe sabo esincane sicwila ogwini olusenyakatho ye I-Calais, France.
IMeya ye Calais, uNatacha Bouchart, uthe namuhla isibalo sabashonile limi ku-27, ngemuva kwemizuzu enye imeya ibeke izibalo ku-24.
Amaphoyisa aseFrance athe okungenani bangu-27 abantu abashonile.
UFranck Dhersin, iphini lenhloko yezokuthutha esifundeni kanye nemeya yaseTeteghem ogwini olusenyakatho neFrance uthe isibalo sabashonile sesifinyelele ku-31 kanti abantu ababili abakatholakali.
The UNI-International Organisation for Migration ibize lesi sigameko njengokufa kwabantu abaningi kakhulu e-English Channel kusukela baqala ukuqoqa imininingwane ngo-2014.
Baningi abokufika abangekho emthethweni abasuke ogwini olusenyakatho yeFrance kunokwejwayelekile beyosizakala ngezimo ezipholile zasolwandle ngoLwesithathu, nakuba amanzi abebanda kakhulu.
Omunye umdobi ubize abezokutakula ngemva kokubona isikebhe esingenalutho nabantu bentanta benganyakazi eduze.
Kutshalwe izikebhe ezintathu nezindiza ezinophephela emhlane ukuthi zibe yingxenye yokusesha, kusho iziphathimandla zendawo.
UNdunankulu waseFrance uJean Castex ubize isikebhe "njengenhlekelele".
"Imicabango yami ikanye nabaningi abalahlekile nabalimele, izisulu zabashushumbisi abaxhaphaza usizi nosizi lwabo," ubhale kuTwitter.
UNdunankulu wase-UK u-Boris Johnson uthe "ushaqekile futhi ushaqekile futhi udabuke kakhulu ngokushona kwabantu".
“Imicabango yami nozwela ngabahlukunyezwayo kanye nemindeni yabo futhi kusesimeni esibi ukuthi bahlukumezekile. Kodwa le nhlekelele igcizelela ukuthi kuyingozi kangakanani ukuwela iChannel ngale ndlela,” engeza.
UJohnson ufunge wagomela ukuthi uhulumeni wakhe "ngeke ashiye phansi isiphakamiso sebhizinisi labashushumbisi babantu kanye nezigelekeqe," ngemuva kokuthi ebambe umhlangano wekomidi lezimo eziphuthumayo likahulumeni lapho kuwela khona.
Phambilini ngoLwesithathu, uMnyango Wezangaphakathi eFrance uthe imikhumbi yaseFrance egade izidumbu ithole izidumbu ezinhlanu nabanye abahlanu bequlekile emanzini ngemuva kokuba umdobi ebikele iziphathimandla.
Lesi sigameko siza njengoba kukhula ukungezwani phakathi kweLondon neParis ngenxa yezinombolo ezirekhodiwe zabafuduki abawela iChannel.
Isibalo sabafuduki ngokungemthetho abasebenzisa izikebhe ezincane noma izikebhe ukuwela Isiteshi sikhule kakhulu kulo nyaka, naphezu kwezingozi ezinkulu.
Ngokusho kwezikhulu zase-UK, bangaphezu kuka-25,000 abantu asebefikile kuze kube manje kulo nyaka, okuvele kuphindwe kathathu isibalo esiqoshwe ngo-2020.
IBrithani inxuse iFrance ukuthi ithathe izinyathelo eziqinile kulabo abazama ukuthatha lolu hambo.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- Johnson vowed his government would “leave no stone unturned to demolish the business proposition of the human traffickers and the gangsters,” after he had chaired a meeting of the government's emergency committee on the crossings.
- According to French police and local officials, at least 27 people have died in the latest disaster, while attempting to cross the English Channel from France to England when their small boat sank off the northern coast of Calais, France.
- The UN‘s International Organization for Migration called the incident the largest single loss of life in the English Channel since they started collecting data in 2014.
