Three migrants have died and 43 were rescued after a major rescue operation in the English Channel, LBC understands
A major rescue operation was launched early today after a small boat ran into difficulties in the English Channel near Kent, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said.
I am aware of a distressing incident in the Channel this morning and I am being kept constantly updated while agencies respond and urgently establish the full facts. My heartfelt thoughts are with all those involved.Searches are going to continue all day but rescuers are no longer looking for survivors, given the freezing temperature of the Channel.Marine radar shows a cluster of boats, believed to be the search party, off the Kent coast.
As well as an HM Coastguard Search and Rescue helicopter vessels at the scene include two RNLI lifeboats from Ramsgate and Rye, the Royal Navy patrol boat HMS Severn, a French coastguard patrol boat Kermorvan as well as two fishing vessels.to try to stop the illegal flow of migrant boats and reduce the asylum backlog of around 150,000 cases.
"We have sent Dover, Dungeness, Hastings and Ramsgate RNLI lifeboats and Deal, Dungeness and Folkestone coastguard rescue teams, along with the coastguard area commander.
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