IT took just two short but horrifying hours for the men to die. The clang of the 15-tonne covers of the cargo hold shutting down on the two stowaways, hiding in the bowels of the cargo ship Pascal, was the pronouncement of a death sentence.
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The tomb ship
While police try to identify the bodies of two men found in the suffocating cargo hold of a ship at Ayr harbour, the two deaths serve as a grim reminder of thousands of refugees desperate enough to risk anything � even death � to get a better life in the UK. Neil Mackay pieces together their story
