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Another major loss of migrant lives |
2017-01-16 |
[Libya Herald] Despite bad weather, the migrant tide toward Europe increases and more than 100 refugees are feared drowned off the Libyan coast after their boat capsized yesterday. Another eight were confirmed as dead Flavio Di Giacomo of the International Organisation for Migration said the boat had been carrying 110 IOM figures show that so far this year arrivals in Italia from Libya had more than doubled from 268 in 2016 to 729 by last Thursday. This latest in the long list of migrant tragedies comes on the eve of an EU summit in Brussels which will once again try and tackle the flows of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The Italian government is being condemned for its idea of returning Medecins Sans Frontieres, one of the Non-Government Organisations involved in collecting people from their frail rubber rafts and decrepit fishing boats has called for an end to the carnage. It said today that despite the winter seas, The latest migrant disaster meant an French-Italian rescue operation directing naval vessels, planes and aircraft and at least one merchant ship to the area where the migrant craft sank. Since Friday night, at least 800 people have been rescued from flimsy craft as they attempted to reach the Italian coastline. |
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