12 migrants detained in Lydd-on-Sea as Sajid Javid holds crisis talks

Bangla sanglap desk: Twelve suspected migrants have been detained after they landed in a dingy on a Kent beach.

Nine men, two women and a child, all from Iran, arrived in a small black motor-powered boat just after 8am on Monday at the beach at Lydd-on-sea.

Pictures from the beach, which is close to Dungeness, showed officers searching the small boat.

One local, who regularly visits the beach, tweeted: “I have just been for a walk along the beach, there was quite a police presence and the helicopter has been going around, we can hear it over the sea.