Candle-lit vigil held in Swansea for 27 people who died crossing Channel
It's been called the biggest loss of life in the channel since records began
A vigil is being held in Swansea tonight for the 27 people who died trying to cross the English Channel on Wednesday.
Refugee and human rights campaigners will meet to hold the candle-lit vigil in Castle Square at around 5:30pm.
It's to remember the dozens of people headed for the UK who drowned when their boat sank near Calais, with pregnant women and children among those who died.
An official at the International Organisation for Migration said the disaster was the biggest loss of life in the Channel since data started being collected in 2014.
Despite it being just a day after the recent tragedy, more people have been brought ashore in the UK after making the journey across the Channel.
A group was seen huddled together aboard an RNLI lifeboat, wearing life jackets and blankets, before they disembarked in Dover on Thursday morning.
An "absolute tragedy"
Gerald Darmanin, French interior minister, said the loss of 27 lives was an "absolute tragedy", as he blamed human trafficking gangs.
Boris Johnson held an emergency Cobra meeting after the deaths, and spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday evening in light of the tragedy.
Downing Street said the two leaders had agreed "to keep all options on the table" in their efforts to break up the human trafficking gangs responsible for putting migrants at risk.
The Prime Minister said the deaths were a "disaster", and that it was vital to "break" the people trafficking gangs that were "getting away with murder."