DETECTIVES investigating the deaths of Chinese cockle pickers want to trace people who fled Morecambe that night, reports Nadia Jefferson-Brown.

As Morecambe Bay's sands gave up another one of their dead, investigators revealed that a vehicle seen at the scene had been recovered in Merseyside.

But police are unclear how many people raced off in it and how many others may have left in other vehicles, such as taxis.

The death toll of people trapped by incoming tides on the night of February 5 now stands at 20. But members of the Chinese community believe 24 people drowned.

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