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Ten women migrants die as dozens are rescued from sinking dinghy
Ten women died in a sinking boat packed with migrants off the coast of Libya on Thursday.
Raised from the sea bed: Wreck which was tomb for hundreds of migrants
The wreck of an overcrowded boat which sank in the Mediterranean killing hundreds of migrants was raised from the sea bed on Wednesday.
At least 40 migrants ‘suffocated in filth’, says Italian navy captain
At least 40 migrants have died at sea and hundreds more have been rescued from an overcrowded smugglers’ boat in the Mediterranean sea.
Mediterranean migrant crisis: Italy rescues over 6k, demands help from EU
Italian rescue ships have brought thousands of migrants to the country’s southern ports as crowded shelters in Sicily and on the mainland struggled...
10 traffickers and 15 migrants arrested as boats pour into Italy
Italian Police in the Sicilian port city of Augusta have arrested 10 alleged traffickers who were amongst hundreds of migrants rescued at sea. Fifteen...
Italy’s migrant crisis intensifies with murder arrests, drownings
Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as the crisis...
No more survivors to be found from Italy migrant shipwreck, rescuers say
Rescuers have found no more survivors from the shipwreck of a boat in which 400 migrants are believed to have drowned, the Italian coastguard said Wednesday.
Up to 400 migrants die as boat capsizes off Libya, survivors say
Some 400 illegal migrants may have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Sunday, according to survivors who were rescued and brought...
400 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya, survivors say
Up to 400 illegal migrants trying to reach Europe died after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday, said survivors who were saved and brought...
Italian coastguard saves 900 migrants after smugglers abandon ship
Italy’s Coast Guard said Wednesday it had narrowly averted a catastrophe after people smugglers set a cargo ship with 900 people on board on a collision...
Tunisia’s fishermen save rising tide of migrants
Chamseddine Bourassine, a Tunisian fisherman in his 50s, says he and his colleagues are on the front lines of a growing humanitarian disaster as waves...
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