Skipper of fishing vessel tells how his crew spent two hours pulling 31 people from the freezing water
Four people died and more than 40 were rescued
An unidentified man on the sinking vessel, in a recording obtained by the Guardian, asked at 2.53am for the alarm to be raised to save his family who were in the icy waters.Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, expressed his “sorrow” at the “capsizing of a small boat”, telling MPs there had been a “tragic loss of human life”. His home secretary,with policies which aim to deter people from seeking asylum in the UK.
Cries can be heard in the background of the 22-second recording as the man said: “Hello brother. We are in a boat and we have a problem. We have children and a family in a boat. Water is coming in but we don’t have anything for it, for feeling safety.” “One guy was hanging off my wire. I thought at first it was just him, and once I got my fishing gear up – which took about three minutes – I stopped my boat and ran outside and along the port side there were five of them hanging off the side of my boat,” he said.After the first five people were pulled aboard, others began swimming towards his boat. “It was like something out of a second world war movie; there were people in the water everywhere, screaming,” Raymond said.
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