A male asylum seeker on board the Bibby Stockholm barge has died in a suspected suicide, sources have confirmed to the Times.
Dorset police said the incident occurred this morning. The Home Office said further information would be released in due course.
There are about 200 migrants living on the barge moored at Portland in south Dorset but it is understood that they will not be evacuated despite the death.
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