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Evening Standard
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Anahita Hossein-Pour

Woman who died crossing English Channel wanted to feel safe, mother says

The mother of a 21-year-old woman who died after being crushed in an overcrowded boat trying to cross the English Channel, has said the family will have to attempt the journey again as they have “no options” but to seek asylum in the UK.

Dina Al Shammari was travelling with her three younger siblings, aged 13 to 19, and parents, when she died off the coast of Calais on July 28.

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