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It comes as officers also detained a 22-year-old Sudanese man and a 22-year-old South Sudanese man on Wednesday.
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They were arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and entering the UK illegally.
A 19-year-old Sudanese man who was originally arrested on Tuesday has been released without charge and is now being dealt with by immigration authorities, the NCA added.
The 55 surviving boat passengers have already been interviewed and are expected to speak to them further in the coming days.
More than 400 migrants arrived in the UK on the day the group died.
A spokesperson for the NCA added that the agency and partners from Kent Police, Immigration Enforcement and the Border Force are working with counterparts in France to investigate the circumstances of the deadly incident on a beach near Wimereux, in northern France, on Tuesday.
A dinghy carrying more than 100 people set off from Wimereux at around 6am on Tuesday but ran into difficulties.
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Three men, a woman and a girl died, according to the coast guard in France.
Around 49 people were rescued but a further 58 refused to leave the boat and continue their journey towards the UK, the coastguard said in a statement, with several other boats embarking on the crossing later.
According to all reports, the incident happened as rival migrant groups all tried to scramble onto the boat, causing it to become very crowded.
The tragedy happened a few hours after Parliament passed legislation aimed at getting the Government’s plan to give asylum seekers a one-way ticket to Rwanda.
Tuesday’s crossings take the provisional total for the year to date to 6,667 – 20% higher than this time last year (5,546) but slightly lower (down 0.4%) than the figure currently recorded in 2022 (6,691).
Around 29,437 people made the journey in 2023, a 36% drop on the record 45,774 arrivals in 2022.
Campaigners said the Rwanda plan will not save lives as they mourned the news of more deaths due to the treacherous journey calling on the Channel not to become a children’s graveyard.
But Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the incident underlines the need for the deterrent the Government hopes will mean sending migrants to the east African nation if they arrive in the UK illegally.
