More than 150 migrants saved from burning boat in English Channel

French coastguard officials have rescued migrants stranded on a burning boat in the English Channel.

The multi-agency English Channel operation saw cooperation between French officials, British Border Security Command boats and an RNLI lifeboat off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer

French and British vessels saved 157 migrants after their boat caught fire while trying to cross the Channel on Tuesday, authorities in both countries said. It is one of the largest such rescue operations reported since records began in 2018. “A small boat caught fire on the boundary between French and British waters,

PARIS, Aug 4 - French coastguards rescued 157 people from a boat carrying migrants that caught fire in the English Channel on Tuesday near the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, the local administration said in a statement.

French coastguards rescue 157 from burning migrant boat in English Channel  Reuters

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol— A 40-year-old fisherman from Jagna town was rescued after his fishing boat was partially sank in on Sunday. Lt. (j.g.) Kurt Daryl Aplal, station commander of the Coast Guard Station Eastern Bohol, identified the fisherman as Ronald Aclan, a resident of Barangay Bunga Mar, Jagna. Aplal said Aclan

Reform wants to launch 'largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two' to stop small boats  lbc.co.uk

The party says it would send the Royal Navy into the Channel to intercept all migrant boats and return them to France or Belgium under a plan called 'Operation Fortress'

Zia Yusuf said the party would launch 'the largest military operation in the English Channel since WW2'