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• Why a year of lockdown has made searching for the missing so hard

  11-04-2021 10:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Almost all the people who disappear are found. But in the past year, many safety nets for the most vulnerable have been lostHe sat on the deserted platform shortly after 10am and carefully removed his grey Adidas trainers. Then he jumped on to the train track and lay down, waiting.The driver saw him too late. The 5ft 7in 20-something died instantly at London’s Clapham North underground station. It was 7 April last year; the death went largely unnoticed as the country suffered its first loc
  
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