‘I don’t want to die here’: Survivor of deadliest Channel boat tragedy recalls six

Believing he would die in what went on to become the deadliest Channel boat disaster, Issa Mohamed Omar, took a leap of faith, let go of the stricken vessel he had been clinging to and swam for six-hours, as Holly Bancroft reports


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