Channel disaster: Afghans ‘possibly’ among the dead, inquiry hears
Emergency staff remove a stretcher and body bag from the Dover lifeboat after it returned to the Port of Dover following a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent. Four people died and 43 people were rescued. Picture date: Wednesday December 14, 2022.
AFGHAN nationals were “possibly” among the four people who died in the Channel this month, an inquest has heard.
Kent area coroner Katrina Hepburn, opening the inquest at County Hall in Maidstone on Friday, said the victims were still unidentified.
But a Kent Police report said it was possible two of them were from Afghanistan, while the other were Senegalese.
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