Migrants come ashore on British RAF base in Cyprus
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Four boatloads of migrants came ashore at a British military base on Cyprus on Wednesday, authorities said, the first time since the migrant crisis began that migrants have landed directly on what is considered British sovereign soil.
Vessels carrying the migrants were spotted in the early morning hours off RAF Akrotiri, a sprawling military facility on the southern coast of Cyprus used to bomb Islamic State targets in northern Iraq.
"We have not established where they are from yet," a spokesman for the bases said.
It was unclear exactly how many migrants there were. Two vessels initially arrived carrying about 140 people, and then another two boats arrived, authorities said.
