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Campaigners pay respects to British man killed in Syria

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to British man Oliver Hall who has been killed clearing mines in Syria.

Mr Hall, from Portsmouth, is the seventh British person to have died while working with the People's Protection Units (YPG).

The  24-year-old was killed on November 25 when a mine exploded during a clean-up operation in Raqqa.

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