A WOMAN in her 20s has died after plunging from the MSC Virtuosa cruise ship into the English Channel in a horror 2am fall.
The cruise ship passenger was winched out of the English Channel today after falling off the vessel in the middle of the night.
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She was raced to hospital but was pronounced dead despite the best efforts of medics.
British and French cops are now probing the woman’s death.
French coastguards confirmed on Saturday that the unidentified person disappeared off the MSC Virtuosa at around 2am.
The cruise ship was steaming from Lisbon to Southampton when disaster struck.
An emergency alert was received at around 3am French time, saying that a person was missing,’ a coastguards source told The Sun.
A helicopter was scrambled to a search area just north Les Casquets rocks, near the Channel Islands of Alderney.
‘The person was winched out of the sea, and is being treated by emergency services’ the source added.
A plane from Channel Islands Air Search was sent to the scene from Guernsey, along with lifeboat crews from Alderney and France.
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