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Channel disaster one year on: ‘We feel as if we are dying at sea’
Britain leaves bereaved relatives of 31 people who drowned in icy waters of the Channel on November 24, 2021, in agonising wait for answers. BETHANY RIELLY reports
Sirwan Alipour, a 23-year-old Iranian Kurd, (left) and (right) Twana, an 18-year-old Iraqi Kurd, both died in the Channel
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FAMILIES of the victims who drowned in the Channel last year have criticised the British authorities, saying they have been “ignored” and left without answers a year on from the disaster.
Today marks one year since the deaths of at least 27 people in the worst maritime disaster in the English Channel for three decades.
Just two of the 34 people believed to be on the flimsy dinghy survived the boat’s journey from France to Britain on November 24, with five still missing, presumed dead.
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