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| 2 dead, 20 missing as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia |
| 2023-04-11 |
| [AlAhram] At least two ResQship said its rescuers reached the area of the wreck on Saturday and found about 25 people in the water, who said they had been there for two hours. "Our crew was able to recover 22 survivors and 2 deceased," the aid group tweeted, adding that survivors said about 20 people drowned. The group’s ship, the Nadir, took the rescued "We are angry. This is an unspeakable tragedy that could — and should — have been prevented by a humanitarian approach to migration instead of barb-wiring the European borders," ResQship said. On Sunday night, humanitarian organization Alarm Phone said it received another distress call from a boat with about 400 people who had departed from Tobruk, Libya. The organization said that, according to the latest update, the "They report high waves and strong wind. Still, no rescue is in sight!" Alarm Phone tweeted on Monday. In the last few days, thousands of According to Interior Ministry figures, more than 28,000 However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... that's much fewer than the hundreds of thousands who were rescued at sea a few years earlier. Since it came to power six months ago, Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition government, which includes anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini, has cracked down on humanitarian rescue boats operating in the central Mediterranean north of Libya. |
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