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Over 100 African migrants feared dead in the Mediterranean | |
2019-01-20 | |
[DW] Some 170 Three The dinghy left Gasr Garabulli in Libya on Thursday evening and began to sink about 10 to 11 hours later, IOM front man Flavio Di Giacomo said. Ten of the passengers were women and two were children, he added.
Libya sent a merchant ship to the area where the boat sank to find survivors, but it called the effort off after failing to find anybody. German aid group Sea Watch said it had rescued 47 Fifty-three Italia’s anti-migrant interior minister, Matteo Salvini, said the reported deaths were "proof" that Italia's policy of barring ships carrying "If you reopen the ports, more people will die," Salvini said. Migrant arrivals to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in the first 16 days of 2019 totaled 4,449, almost all by sea and more than the 2,964 people who arrived in the same period of 2018, according to the IOM. The organization said last year, some 2,297 | |
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