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Two female Sudanese asylum seekers die trying to cross Channel
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Reports say a 16-year-old and a woman in her twenties were found dead in a boat in the early hours of Sunday morning Two female Sudanese asylum seekers have died trying to cross the Channel in the early hours of Sunday morning, off the coast of Boulogne.According to some reports, one was a teenager aged 16 and the other a woman in her twenties. They were found dead in the boat, which “ran aground on the beach” of Neufchâtel-Hardelot, according to Christophe Marx, secretary general of the Pas-de-Calais Prefecture. Continue reading...
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