Police in West Flanders have 31 migrants on that were hoping to cross the Channel and enter the UK illegally sleeping in a nature reserve in De Panne. The nature reserve where the migrants were found is near to the French border. The police assume that they were waiting to be take to a boat to make the crossing to the UK. Later in the evening the Maritime Police intercepted 2 boats. The first had 12 people aboard, the second 46.