Bones found at tragic cockle site.HUMAN remains have been found near the site of the Morecambe Bay Morecambe Bay, shallow inlet of the Irish Sea, 16 mi (26 km) long and 10 mi (16.1 km) wide, separating Furness peninsula from the mainland, NW England. It receives the Kent and Lune rivers. Shrimp are caught there, and its extensive tidal flats are cockling grounds. cockling disaster, police said yesterday. Children playing Album Info
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At least 21 Chinese cocklers, who had been living in Liverpool, drowned after they were caught in rising tides off Hest Bank Hest Bank is a village in north-western Lancashire, England, the boundaries of which include the coastline, from a western shoreline of salt-flats that adjoin the northern extremities of Morecambe's Victorian era Promenade, to a less clearly defined boundary in the east with the in February 2004. The bodies of two have never been found. A spokesman for Cumbria Police said: "We are still trying to identify the human remains. They are basically bones." Gangmaster Lin Liang Ren was jailed for 14 years at Preston Crown Court in March this year after he was found guilty of 21 counts of manslaughter. Ren, who had also been living in Liverpool, abandoned the immigrants to their deaths in the freezing cold water and fled from police after the disaster, the seven-month trial heard. The pair whose bodies were never found were cobbler Dong Xin Wu, 38, from Fuzhov City and mother of one Liu Qin Ying, 37, from Putian City. |
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