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Teen who drowned on rugby trip only reported missing after team returned to hotel

The mother of a teenage boy who died while on a rugby tour in France told how she "screamed and cried" when she heard the news of her son’s death.

Harry Sykes, 16, of Clayton Heights, Bradford, was on tour in the South of France with his club Halifax Elite Rugby Academy when he died on Wednesday, September 5, 2018, an inquest heard on Monday.

He had gone swimming at lunchtime with pals in Lake Cavayere, which is near the medieval town of Carcassonne in southern France.

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