Three charged over Ramsgate fishing boat migrants Published duration 12 August 2018 Related Topics Europe migrant crisis

image caption The boat was taken to Ramsgate Harbour after being discovered drifting off the Kent coast

Three British men have been charged after four suspected Iraqi nationals were rescued from a fishing boat drifting out to sea off the Kent coast.

Two men, one pregnant woman and a child were aboard the boat, which was towed by the RNLI into Ramsgate Harbour on Thursday.

Border Force said the migrants, who presented themselves as Iraqis, had been interviewed.