'I love England,' migrant says as he lands after boat crossing


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Aug 2023

People, believed to be migrants, walk in Dungeness, Britain, August 16, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville

DUNGENESS, England (Reuters) - Dozens of men, women and children arrived on a shingle beach on the southern coast of England on Wednesday, tired but relieved to be brought ashore by a large orange lifeboat after making the risky sea crossing from France in rubber dinghies.

They are the latest among more than 2,000 migrants who have reached Britain from countries like Iran, Syria and Afghanistan just this month, encouraged by better weather to make the journey in their bid to claim asylum in the UK.

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