A huge air and sea rescue operation has launched in the English Channel after a migrant boat got into difficulties in the early hours.
Medics have been told to get ready for 'multiple casualties' as an air and sea rescue operation in the English Channel continues after a migrant boat got into difficulties in the early hours of this morning. Emergency calls reporting a migrant boat in distress were received by the UK coastguard shortly before 3am.
The rescue comes less than a day after the Prime Minister announced a raft of new plans to try to stop the illegal flow of migrant boats and reduce the asylum backlog of around 150,000 cases.Migrants arriving in Kent after being rescued in the Channel earlier this month.Boris Johnson and Priti Patel back plans to defy European judge and relaunch Rwanda migrant flights immediately
"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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