Channel migrants: Boats carrying 60 people intercepted
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Border Force picked up 60 migrants in four vessels off the Kent Coast
Four boats carrying 60 migrants have been intercepted off the Kent coast.
The Home Office said 57 men and three women had crossed the English Channel on Wednesday in small boats.
A spokesman said they were alerted to the first incident at about 01:45 BST and a further three incidents at 05:25, 07:30 and 08:45 BST.
Those on board the boats presented themselves as Iranian, Sudanese, Yemeni, Syrian, Ethiopian, Egyptian, Afghan, Eritrean and Iraqi.
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