Three more migrants are intercepted overnight hours after 40 including two children were rescued from English Channel as people smugglers try to capitalise on Christmas drop in patrols
By Joseph Curtis and Darren Boyle for MailOnline 06:59 EST 26 Dec 2018, updated 07:22 EST 26 Dec 2018
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The Home Office last night confirmed that five groups of migrants, mostly Iraqi, Iranian and Afghani, arrived in the country.
Sources told the Daily Telegraph it was believed trafficking gangs were hoping to capitalise on an expected drop in the number of border patrols taking place over the Christmas period.
In another incident in French waters, nine migrants were rescued and are now in the UK after the engine of the vessel they were travelling in failed.
It comes as more than 150 migrants have been plucked from the English Channel trying to reach Britain since the start of November.
Most of those held by police crossing the world's busiest shipping lane from France since November have claimed to be Iranian.
It emerged last month that people smugglers are charging migrants up to £13,000 each to cross the Channel by inflatable dinghy.
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