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AFGHAN MIGRANT TRIES TO REACH BRITAIN ON BEDSHEET RAFT MADE OF BOTTLE?


The Afghan migrant who failed in his bid to reach Britain in a boat he made with crutches and a bed sheet has already revealed the blueprint for a new vessel made almost entirely from plastic bottles. 
Last  Monday, French coast guards picked up Asif Hussainkhil, 33, two miles off Sangatte near Calais, after he was spotted from a ferry as he tried to make the 21-mile Channel crossing. 
He had spent three weeks making the boat out of six pieces of wood, with three buoys underneath and blue life jacket material to sit on. 
His fellow Afghan migrants yesterday said they had repeatedly warned him not to go on his boat and were convinced he would die.
"We were expecting to hear that he had drowned and couldn't believe it when we saw him show up at the camp on Monday night," said Jamal Aslam Khel, 26, a fellow Afghan who has already made it to England once in a lorry but was thrown out. 
He had spent three weeks making the boat out of six pieces of wood, with three buoys underneath and blue life jacket material to sit on. 
Despite the fact that rescuers said he was lucky not to have capsized and been killed, and had "zero per cent chance of making it to Britain", Mr Hussainkhil was already hatching plans for a new craft.
Standing in the Fort Mahon sand dunes outside Calais, where he hid and built his first vessel, Mr Hussainkhil said: "I am starting to make a new boat with the hull made entirely out of empty bottles, which I will tie together."  


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