Anguish for migrants' families after Channel tragedy


FILE PHOTO: Kurdish migrants sit at a makeshift camp in Loon-Plage near Dunkirk, France, November 29, 2021. REUTERS/Juan Medina

LILLE, France (Reuters) - Ghafour Mangl last heard from his cousin shortly before he was due to take his place in a people smuggler's dinghy and cross the Channel to Britain. Mangl is now consumed by fear that his cousin drowned during his attempt.

On Wednesday, Mangl was among four Afghans who arrived at a morgue in Lille to see if a missing relative was among the bodies of 27 migrants who died in the seas separating France and Britain in a single incident a week earlier.

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