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Channel migrants ‘diverted coastguards with decoy distress call’
Dinghy reached the UK coast unimpeded and undetected earlier this week in ‘suspicious’ crossing
Channel migrants who landed on a Kent beach may have made a decoy emergency call to distract Border Force and reach the shore undetected, said seafarers.
Fishermen who were at sea at the time say the boat carrying 30 migrants made a 999 call claiming... [5071 chars]
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