Telegraph:
Asif Hussainkhil was saved after being picked up less than two nautical miles off Sangatte near Calais.
A young Afghan man has been rescued by the French coastguard after risking his life trying to reach Britain on a makeshift raft fashioned from three planks and propelled by a bed sheet sail.
Asif Hussainkhil, 33, was picked up less than two nautical miles off Sangatte near Calais, when he was spotted by a ferry as he tried to make the 21-mile Channel crossing.
It is rather strange that he risked his live just to get to far away Britain when Afghanistan is almost surrounded by countries which share his muhammadan faith.