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Fresh calls for safe routes after 38 refugees rescued from Channel
A young girl is carried to shore as a group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dungeness, Kent, after being rescued by the RNLI following a small boat incident in the Channel
THIRTY-EIGHT people have been rescued from the Channel after their small boat sank off the Kent coast.
The coastguard said it had co-ordinated a search-and-rescue operation on Thursday morning, working with the Royal Navy, Border Force and police.
The BBC reported that the group were picked up after several ended up in the water, with some waiting for almost an hour to be rescued. No deaths have been reported.
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