Medic have been told to get ready for ‘multiple casualties’ as an air and sea rescue operation in the continues after a migrant boat got into difficulties in the early hours of this morning.
Emergency calls reporting a migrant boat in distress were received by the UK coastguard shortly before 3am.
The Marine Traffic radar website showed a cluster of vessels in the channel between Lydd in Kent and the Cap Gris Nez in .
As well as an HM Coastguard Search and Rescue helicopter vessels at the scene include two RNLI lifeboats from Ramsgate and Rye, the Royal Navy patrol boat HMS Severn, a French coastguard patrol boat Kermorvan as well as two fishing vessels.
GB News was reporting this morning Ashford hospital in Kent had been told to clear the A&E ahead of ‘multiple casualties.’
(Daily Mail)
