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Sailor injured on container ship in Channel
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The man was transferred to a RNLI lifeboat, about six miles off the coast of Kent, before being winched onto the coastguard helicopter.
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Dover Coastguard
A man was airlifted to hospital after being injured on a container ship in the Channel.
Dover Coastguard said the man in his early 30s suffered facial, back, neck and leg injuries during a fall on the CMA CGM Azure on Saturday evening.
The man was transferred to a RNLI lifeboat, about six miles off the coast of Kent, before being winched onto the coastguard helicopter.
He is being treated at Margate's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital.
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