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2013-10-13 Europe

Lampedusa Migrant Shipwreck Toll Rises to 359

[An Nahar] Divers on Saturday found an additional 20 bodies off the Italian island of Lampedusa, Italian media reported, bringing the still provisional corpse count from an October 3 shipwreck to 359.

Only 155 of the about 545 migrants aboard the vessel, mainly from Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
, survived the disaster, the worst immigration tragedy for Italia in more than a decade.

An Italian military ship, the Cassiopea, arrived Saturday at Lampedusa, Italia's southernmost island, to pick up 339 coffins bearing the first batch of victims, to transport them to Porto Empedocle, Sicily.

The coffins were loaded using a crane in a lengthy operation beginning in the early afternoon.

About 100 of the victims may be buried at the cemetery of the southern Sicilian city of Agrigento, and the others in nearby towns, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said Wednesday that a state funeral would be held for the victims, but did not announce a date.

Posted by Fred 2013-10-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Lucky it wasn't off the coast of "Amurika".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-13 05:11|| 2013-10-13 05:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Down in the MinTruth memory hole are the stories of Haitians experiencing the same. Was enough with the influx into Florida and the all important upcoming election cycle for Billy Clinton to ~~invade~~ liberate Haiti from its Detroit style cabal.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-13 11:51|| 2013-10-13 11:51|| Front Page Top

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