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Sunday, May 29, 2016
UN: Up to 700 refugees dead in 3 Mediterranean shipwrecks
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleOver 700 migrants are feared dead in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy.
An estimated 100 people are missing from a smugglers’ boat that capsized Wednesday, according to Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman for UNHCR.
She says about 550 other migrants and refugees are missing from a smuggling boat that capsized Thursday morning after leaving the western Libyan port of Sabratha a day earlier. Refugees who saw the boat sink told her agency that that boat, which was carrying about 670 people, didn’t have an engine and was being towed by another packed smuggling boat before it capsized.
About 25 people from the capsized boat managed to reach the first boat and survive, 79 others were rescued by international patrol boats and 15 bodies were recovered.
— AP
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