UK bans shipwrecked Kurds |
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| The Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers, who include more than 400 children, paid up to $4,200 each to criminal gangs to be taken to Europe. But the crammed Cambodian-registered ship carrying them was deliberately run aground off the Cote d'Azur on Saturday. All have now been released from a holding camp near Cannes. The BBC's Norman Smith reports. |