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Africa North
Death toll mounts after Egypt boat tragedy
2016-09-24
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The bodies of 162 people had been pulled from the waters off the Egyptian coast by Friday, two days after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants colonists capsized in the Mediterranean while attempting to head to Europe.

Dozens more are feared dead, said Mohammed Sultan, the governor of Beheira, who provided The News Agency that Dare Not be Named with the latest corpse count. He also said that the search operation is still ongoing. Many of them are believed to be children and women who were unable to swim away when the boat sank.

Wahdan el-Sayyed, the front man of the Nile Delta province of Beheira, provided the latest figures and told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the search operation was ongoing.
Posted by:Fred

#2  not too smart on the part of yhe smuggler; should have been cash up front. once in the boat, who cares?
Posted by: Beldar Hatrack9738   2016-09-24 18:17  

#1  "Some of the interviewees said the traffickers asked for $6250 per family, to be given on arrival in Italia."
Fleeing war maybe. Fleeing poverty not so much at those prices.
Posted by: Shick de Medici6262   2016-09-24 08:11  

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