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		</div><p class="story-info clearfix">Nine migrants, including three children, have been intercepted on a beach in England after crossing the English Channel in a small 13ft (4m) inflatable boat.</p>
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<p>A further rescue operation was also underway at around 8am today after up to eight people were believed to have been spotted on an inflatable vessel near Dover in Kent.</p>
<p>It comes after more than 40 migrants, presenting themselves as Iraqi, Iranian and Afghan, tried to crossed the Channel towards England on Christmas Day.</p>
<p>Littlestone lifeboat station manager Matt Crittenden said they were called at around 12.40am on December 27 to reports of people in a small inflatable boat, three miles (4.8km) off the coast at Sandgate.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;There were very scant details. We launched at around 1am and headed down and Rescue 163, the rescue Coastguard helicopter from Lydd, joined us,&#8221;</em> he told the Press Association.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;They managed to locate the boat, which was empty at that stage, and very, very near the shore.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>He said the Littlestone lifeboat crew did a shoreline search before the migrants were discovered on the beach at Sandgate by the rescue helicopter.</p>
<p>It is understood UK Border Force officials were deployed, and that all nine migrants &#8211; five adult males, a woman, two boys and a girl &#8211; were detained.</p>
<p>Mr Crittenden described the boat the migrants used to cross the Channel in as 13ft (4m) long with a very small 10-horsepower engine on the back.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I am sure it won&#8217;t be the last that we go to &#8230; they are very desperate people,&#8221;</em> he added.</p>
<p>A crew from Dover lifeboat station was also despatched after up to eight migrants were spotted on a craft by the Spirit of Britain ferry. It is understood Border Force officials are also assisting with that operation.</p>
<p>The UK&#8217;s Home Office said earlier this week that &#8220;organized criminal gang activity is behind illegal migration attempts by small boats across the Channel&#8221;.</p>
<p>The crossings follow a number of migrant rescues in recent months involving people trying to reach Britain via the Channel.</p>
<p>Authorities were called to five separate incidents on Christmas Day, with some of those rescued including young children.</p>
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