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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Around 140 Rescued From Normandy Dinghy After Burnham and Macron Announce Mega-Boat Crackdown

Around 140 migrants were rescued from a dinghy off the UK coast after a long Channel crossing from Normandy, days after a new crackdown was announced (Credit: Robert Cutts/Wikimedia Commons)

Around 140 people have been rescued from an inflatable dinghy in the English Channel after it made an unusually long journey from France's Normandy coast to UK waters, just days after Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron announced a new crackdown on large, overcrowded small boats.

The vessel left the Bay of the Seine overnight and was monitored by French rescue boats for about 10 hours before reaching UK waters around lunchtime on Monday.

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