THE DAD of a baby girl who died in English Channel says she slipped from his hands into the water as he fought to hold on to her. Maryam Bahez was just 40 days old when she drowned in the Channel

A baby has died and 65 people have been saved from the English Channel when a migrant boat sank on its crossing towards Britain.

A 40 day old baby girl who died in the English Channel ‘slipped’ from her father’s hands as he attempted to hold her. Baby Maryam Bahez and her family had fled Iraqui Kurdistan and travelled through Europe in hopes of reaching England,

Aras Bahez said Maryam, who was just 40 days old, was wrapped in a black bin bag to keep dry, when his wife and two other sons boarded the overcrowded vessel in France for England.