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Final moments of tragic teenager who drowned on rugby trip will forever be a 'mystery'

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Mystery surrounds how a teenage rugby player met his tragic death in a lake while on tour with his academy in the south of France.

Harry Sykes, aged 16, was on a college trip with his rugby team when he tragically died on September 5, 2018. The body of the teenager, from Bradford, was recovered by divers from a lake near Carcassonne, Yorkshire Like reports.However, an inquest heard how none of his team-mates from Halifax Elite Rugby Academy or anyone else saw the sequence of events unfold prior to his death that afternoon.Harry, who was a strong swimmer, was last seen alive entering the water at approximately 1.30pm and it was only later at 6pm at the hotel that it was realised he was missing.

And to compound his family's misery, the hearing at Bradford Coroner's Court heard his heart and one of his lungs had been lost following a post mortem by the French authorities.

It heard that there were three possibilities to account for this death. The popular teenager must have been hit, lost consciousness or suffered a fatal reaction to the freezing water.

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