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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 06:57 UTC

Tag: HM Coastguard

  • Wednesday, December 26th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

    Busy Christmas: UK rescues illegal immigrants in the English Channel

    The Home Office said some of the migrants identified as Iraqis, Iranians and Afghans, and the children will come under the care of social services

    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, at about 04:30 GMT. And a girl was one of eight who arrived in Folkestone at about 02:40 GMT.