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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Martina Bet

Migrants rescued as number of people crossing Channel ‘hits 100,000 since 2018’

PA Wire

Several migrants have been rescued from the English Channel as the number of people crossing on small boats in the last five-and-a-half years appeared to reach 100,000.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), which aided the UK Coastguard with the search and rescue operation, said lifeboats from Dover, Ramsgate, Dungeness and Littlestone were called out on Thursday morning.

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