June 15, 2015 Meet the Middle East

Dutch police say drowned man was Syrian refugee swimming in the channel

A mysterious body found on a Dutch island beach last year has been identified as a Syrian refugee who drowned in a fatal attempt to swim the Channel, Dutch police said Monday.The 22-year-old man's identity was established after matching DNA with his parents' after his body, dressed in a wetsuit, washed up on the northern Dutch island of Texel in October.
Source: Albawaba
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