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Families of English Channel victims sign open letter demanding justice on the second anniversary of the tragedy
A group of people crossing the Channel in a small boat travel from the coast of France and in the direction of Dover, Kent, August 29, 2023

FAMILIES of people who died crossing the English Channel in a 2021 disaster have signed an open letter demanding justice for their loved ones to mark the second anniversary.

Thirty-on people died when their small boat capsized in the Channel on November 24 2021.

Searches recovered 27 bodies, including one of a pregnant woman and three children. Four are still missing.

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