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THE younger sister of missing Dublin schoolgirl, Lynsey O’Brien, witnessed her falling overboard from a cruise liner off the Mexican coast in the early hours of Thursday morning.

A spokesperson for the Italian liner company which operated the cruise confirmed yesterday that the ship’s captain had been alerted to the incident by a member of the O’Brien family.

It is understood Lynsey’s 11-year-old sister Imelda was with the transition year student when she fell overboard from one of the ship’s upper decks at around 2am local time (8am Irish time).