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04-20-2016, 06:38 PM
UN fears 500 migrants died in a single shipwreck last week
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The UN's refugee agency believes as many as 500 people may have drowned in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean earlier this week, after their ship capsized somewhere between the coasts of Libya and Italy.
If the death toll is confirmed, it would make this tragedy the year's worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean.*
A team at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) an**unced on Tuesday that they had interviewed survivors who had been rescued by a passing merchant ship and then taken to Kalamata, Greece, on April 16.
The team believes there are*41 survivors — 37 of them are men, three of them women and one is a 3-year-old child). The group was made up of migrants from Somalia, Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, chasing a better life in Europe. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/20/mediterranean-shipwreck/)
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The UN's refugee agency believes as many as 500 people may have drowned in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean earlier this week, after their ship capsized somewhere between the coasts of Libya and Italy.
If the death toll is confirmed, it would make this tragedy the year's worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean.*
A team at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) an**unced on Tuesday that they had interviewed survivors who had been rescued by a passing merchant ship and then taken to Kalamata, Greece, on April 16.
The team believes there are*41 survivors — 37 of them are men, three of them women and one is a 3-year-old child). The group was made up of migrants from Somalia, Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, chasing a better life in Europe. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/20/mediterranean-shipwreck/)
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