British-Palestinian girl dies after family drowning tragedy
Six-year-old Saja El-Khawas died in hospital days after her parents and 14-year-old sister drowned off the southern English coast.
A six-year-old British-Palestinian girl, Saja El-Khawas, has tragically passed away in a hospital after a drowning accident that also claimed the lives of her sister and both parents, according to UK police. Saja had been in critical condition since the incident on Tuesday at Shoreham, a coastal town on the southern English coast.
She succumbed to her injuries on Friday. The girl's father, a Palestinian refugee from the Rashidieh Camp in Lebanon, her mother, and her 14-year-old sister were all found dead after being rescued from the sea by emergency services. The family is believed to have traveled to the beach from their residence in London.
CCTV footage and witness accounts suggest that the deaths were a tragic accident, as stated by Sussex Police in a statement released late on Friday. The Palestinian Forum in Britain confirmed that the family were British citizens of Palestinian origin with ancestral ties to the Rashidieh refugee camp in Lebanon.
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