‘Frantic’ calls to rescue migrants on sinking boat in ships’ graveyard

More than 70 asylum seekers were rescued from a sinking boat in a notorious stretch of water known for its shipwrecks (Picture: Metro.co.uk/file image)British life-savers responded to desperate calls from more than 70 migrants crammed onto a dinghy in a notorious stretch of the North Sea, a newly-released Coastguard log shows.
The group called Kent Police to say that ‘they could only see water’ from the sinking vessel stranded in one of the world’s busiest shipping straits