More than 170 migrants rescued after boat catches fire in Channel

The government says all of the migrants, who were attempting to cross to the UK, will be returned to France.

At the end of the operation, 157 people had been rescued and brought to Boulogne-sur-Mer in France.

No deaths or injuries were reported. Many migrants try to reach Britain in small, often unseaworthy vessels.

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has highlighted a sharp fall in successful Channel crossings since the start of the year.

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

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

More than 150 migrants were rescued after their boat caught fire and capsized while crossing the English Channel from France on Tuesday.

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,

More than 150 migrants have been rescued after the boat they were using to cross the Channel caught fire on Tuesday morning, French authorities have said.

Rescue boats from both France and the UK took part in the operation to evacuate passengers from the stricken vessel.

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

French and British teams rescue 157 migrants after a boat engine fire in the Channel  Toronto Star

French and British teams have rescued 157 migrants trying to cross the Channel after their boat's engine caught fire

French and British teams have rescued 157 migrants trying to cross the Channel after their boat's engine caught fire

French authorities said it is one of the largest such rescue operations reported since records began in 2018.

French authorities said it is one of the largest such rescue operations reported since records began in 2018.

Scores rescued after boat catches fire in English Channel  CNN

More than 100 migrants rescued after dinghy capsizes in English Channel  ITVX

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'