Channel deaths: Government orders inquiry into mass drowning
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A pregnant woman and three children were among at least 27 people who died when a boat sank in 2021.

The government has ordered an independent inquiry into a migrant mass drowning in the English Channel.

At least 27 people including a pregnant woman and three children died when a boat sank in 2021.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said an inquiry would look at the circumstances of the deaths...

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