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A man who was denied asylum status in the United Kingdom has drowned in an attempt to jump onto a ship to Canada. A 36-year-old man named Walid Gamal Yasen Gomaa died on April 28 at the Empress Dock at the Queen Elizabeth 2 Terminal in Southampton, according to the coroner’s office in Hampshire, in south east England. An investigation into the death, also known as an inquest, was heard on Tuesday. In England, deaths that are considered unnatural require an inquest to determine when, where and how a person died. Gomaa was an Egyptian national who had been living in the U.K....