A TERRIFIED boy was found wandering alone on the M6 near Birmingham last night.

Cops say he is a migrant who has become separated from his parents and could be in the country without them.

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The Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) said they found the boy on Wednesday night after responding to reports of a pedestrian on the motorway.

"He was split up from his parents a few days ago, and doesn't know which country they're in," the CMPG said in a statement.

"It's impossible to imagine how scared someone would be, not knowing where they are, not knowing where their parents are, unable to speak the language.

"We've taken him to a place of safety with food and water until social services can come and take him to care."

It comes after 39 migrants were found dead in the back of a lorry in Essex.

The lorry driver accused of their deaths pleaded guilty to plotting to assist illegal immigration last month.

And earlier this year we showed the moment migrants scrambled onto a Kent beach amid a wave of more than 270 people descending onto Britain in just a week.

A staggering 1,451 migrants are thought to have crossed the Channel so far this year almost three times the number throughout the whole of 2018 -despite millions being spent on security measures to prevent crossings.

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Of that figure, more than 200 have made it from France to Britain in August alone. Most of the migrants claim to be either Iran or Iraq nationals.

Only a handful of them 65 - have been deported back overseas since January.

Two migrants are known to have died trying to cross the Channel in August, with a 48-year-old Iraqi man found dead after trying to swim over.

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