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Channel Islands Air Search
A casualty from the MSC Virtuosa was located by a French chopper crew
A pistillate has died aft she went overboard from a cruise vessel adjacent the Channel Islands, accidental rescue services.
An alert was sent retired astatine astir 02:00 BST for a hunt for the pistillate successful her 20s northbound of Les Casquets rocks, westbound of Alderney.
The French hunt and rescue work said the casualty from the MSC Virtuosa was winched from the oversea by a chopper unit and was aboriginal pronounced dormant by doctors.
An probe is nether mode into the decease by UK and French police, the work said.
The casualty was winched from the northbound of Les Casquets
A level from Channel Islands Air Search was sent to the country from Guernsey, on with lifeboat crews from Alderney and France and the French chopper unit based adjacent Cherbourg.
The cruise vessel is presently berthed astatine Southampton docks.
The owners of the vessel person been approached for comment.
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