Fishermen rescued at least six people and the search continues for the boat
A freshly landed migrant was transferred directly to hospital after reportedly having been stabbed while aboard a smuggler boat at sea.
People smuggling gangs are making up to £1.6 million per day facilitating illegal boat migrants to break into Britain.
A rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast on Friday, killing at least 22 people, officials said.
Border Force catamarans Volunteer and Defender brought scores of people ashore after picking up the inflatables in the 21-mile wide Dover Straits in the first arrivals since Thursday.
A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized about 16 miles from the coastline of Kuala Bubon beach in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Wednesday. Local fishermen rescued six of the refugees and moved them to a temporary shelter. There were no immediate reports of casualties. About 740,000 Rohingya were resettled in Bangladesh to escape the brutal counterinsurgency campaign by security forces in their homeland of Burma. AT LEAST 5 ROHINGYA REFUGEE BOATS DETECTED OFF...
The bodies of three Rohingya refugees were found in the sea as the Indonesian authorities ended a search for survivors from a boat that capsized near Aceh province, the provincial search and rescue agency said Sunday.
About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead from a boat that made a grueling sea voyage from Bangladesh and sank off Indonesia’s coast this week with 75 survivors, U.N. agencies said. A statement issued jointly by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, and the International Office
About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead from a boat that made a grueling sea voyage from Bangladesh and sank off Indonesia’s coast this week with 75 survivors, U.N. agencies said.
Emergency services were called to Reeves Channel near Gippsland's Lakes Entrance on Monday morning after passing boats noticed the two men were in trouble.
Their small fibreglass boat got into difficulty and capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday night as a rescue team from Doctors Without Borders were scrambling to bring them to safety.
The number of migrants arriving in the UK in 2024 after crossing the Channel has hit a record high.