 Fifteen of the 20 people who died have been identified |
A 33-year-old man who was held over the deaths of 20 Chinese cocklers in Morecambe Bay is continuing to be held police in Plymouth. He had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in Liverpool on Thursday.
He was bailed from a Lancashire police station, but immediately arrested by Plymouth officers, on unrelated "serious" charges.
A total of eight people have been arrested since the cocklers drowned in the bay on 5 February.
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A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "The man has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in other unrelated, serious criminal offences.
"He is now at a police station in this area, where he is being questioned."
Seven other people, who were also arrested on suspicion of manslaughter are still on bail, police said.
They include father and son fishing bosses David and David Eden, from Wirral, Merseyside, as well as a number of Chinese cocklers who survived the tragedy in Morecambe Bay on 5 February.
Fifteen of the 20 people who died have now been identified.
On Wednesday, Dr Xuo Zhijin, of the Ministry of Public Security in China, said once all the bodies had been identified they would be flown home to China for burial.
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