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Eleanor Barlow

Couple drowned in flooding caused by sewer network, report finds

Elaine and Philip Marco (Merseyside Police/PA) - (PA Media)

Flooding on a Liverpool road where a couple drowned was caused because the sewer network could not “cope” with heavy rainfall, according to a report.

Emergency services were called to four other incidents of vehicles being submerged in water in the months leading up to the deaths of Elaine Marco, 76 and her husband Philip, 77, according to the independent report published by Liverpool City Council on Monday.

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