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07-01-2016, 04:12 AM
ROME: Ten women died on Thursday in a new migrant boat accident in the Mediterranean, Italian authorities said as they began the grisly evacuation of hundreds of corpses from a salvaged wreck.
The latest tragedy occurred when a rubber dinghy packed with African migrants began taking on water in rough seas about 20 miles off the coast of Libya.
An Italian coastguard patrol boat, the Diciotti, went to its aid and was able to rescue 107 people (74 men, 34 women and two children) despite a 30-k**t wind and a swell generating two-metre waves.
The rescuers found ten corpses in the bottom of the partially-submerged dinghy, all of them women. It did **t appear that there had been any other casualties, a coastguard spokesman told AFP.
A total of 116 people were safely picked up in a separate operation in waters between Sicily and Libya on Thursday. The coastguard said they did **t expect more departures following a change in the weather.
More than 64,000 people have landed at Italian ports since the start of the year, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, according to a tally by the UN refugee agency which does **t include the latest arrivals.
Some 10,000 would-be emigrants to Europe have died in the Meditteranean since the current crisis erupted in 2013. The latest deaths came as Italian authorities prepared to begin removing the remains of hundreds of corpses from a fishing boat which sank off Libya last year in one of the worst maritime accidents in the Meditteranean since World War II.
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The latest tragedy occurred when a rubber dinghy packed with African migrants began taking on water in rough seas about 20 miles off the coast of Libya.
An Italian coastguard patrol boat, the Diciotti, went to its aid and was able to rescue 107 people (74 men, 34 women and two children) despite a 30-k**t wind and a swell generating two-metre waves.
The rescuers found ten corpses in the bottom of the partially-submerged dinghy, all of them women. It did **t appear that there had been any other casualties, a coastguard spokesman told AFP.
A total of 116 people were safely picked up in a separate operation in waters between Sicily and Libya on Thursday. The coastguard said they did **t expect more departures following a change in the weather.
More than 64,000 people have landed at Italian ports since the start of the year, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, according to a tally by the UN refugee agency which does **t include the latest arrivals.
Some 10,000 would-be emigrants to Europe have died in the Meditteranean since the current crisis erupted in 2013. The latest deaths came as Italian authorities prepared to begin removing the remains of hundreds of corpses from a fishing boat which sank off Libya last year in one of the worst maritime accidents in the Meditteranean since World War II.
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