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Somali refugee schoolgirl Shukri Yahye-Abdi drowned in River Irwell

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A school girl ‘told a Somali refugee, 12, who drowned in a river to ”get in the water or I’ll kill you” but says it was said as a joke’, an inquest has heard.   Shukri Yahye-Abdi, 12, was pulled lifeless from the River Irwell near Bury on June 27 last year after her mother reported … Read more

Somali refugee schoolgirl Shukri Yahye-Abdi drowned in River Irwell could not swim inquest hears

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The mother of a Somali refugee who drowned in a river told an inquest today she had never been swimming before her death.   Shukri Yahye-Abdi, 12, was pulled lifeless from the River Irwell near Bury on June 27 last year after her mother reported her missing.  The inquest into her death resumed today at Rochdale … Read more