Five migrant boats rescued in English Channel
LONDON: Forty migrants, including two children, have been rescued from boats in five separate incidents on Christmas Day in the English Channel.
Lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter intercepted a boat carrying 12 people and a child off the coast of Deal, Kent.
A girl was one of eight who arrived in Folkestone.
The Home Office said some of the migrants identified as Iraqis, Iranians and Afghans.
The children will come under the care of social services, officials said.
In other incidents, a Border Force cutter was deployed to the Channel to help a dinghy travelling towards the UK with seven men and a woman onboard.
All of them have undergone a medical assessment and the adults have been transferred to immigration officials to be interviewed. French maritime officials tweeted two images of the rescue, which appeared to show at least some of the eight people were wearing life jackets.
– BBC
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