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Mayor says he will consider calls for further investigation into death of girl who died in River Irwell
Bury town centre after failing to return home from school in June last year. At an inquest into her death earlier this year, Shukri's mother said her daughter - who was born in a Kenyan refugee camp to Somalian parents before moving to the UK in January 2017 - couldn’t swim and was ‘scared’ of water.Speaking to the BBC's Asian Network, Mr Burnham said 'a huge number of people' had contacted him about the case.He added: "Some 6,000 emails have been received."It was a really sad case.
