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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Emily Jane-Heap & Charlie Duffield

Family of migrant who died at Manston detention centre found out through social media

The family of a migrant who died at the Manston processing centre say they only knew about his death from social media.

On November 19 Hussein Haseeb Ahmed, 31, died at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, after crossing the Channel on a small boat seven days beforehand.

The dad-of-one from Chamchamal in the Kurdistan region of Iraq was intending to seek asylum in the UK.

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