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By Adel Thabeti TUNIS, Tunisia (AA): Tunisia said Wednesday 10 migrants drowned and 76 others were rescued in two illegal attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe. In a statement, National Guard spokesman Hosam Eddin Al-Jababli said the bodies of 10 migrants were recovered after their boat capsized off Tunisia’s coast. He added that […]

23rd Jun 2018

Mediterranean migrants death toll nears 1,000

By Fatih Erel GENEVA (AA): A total of 960 migrants and refugees have lost their lives at Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of 2018, the UN migration agency said on Friday. “Mediterranean arrivals at this point in 2018 are running at significantly below half of last year’s total to date, and some 19 percent […]

8th Nov 2017

UN: 100 migrants die in Mediterranean Sea in 4 days

By Fatih Erel GENEVA (AA): Nearly 100 refugees have died in the Mediterranean Sea over the last four days, including 26 women from Nigeria, the UN said on Tuesday. Thirty-four bodies have been recovered and an estimated 50 people remain missing, International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Joel Millman told a news conference in […]

1st Sep 2015

Libya: 140 illegal migrants feared dead off Libyan coast

TRIPOLI, (AA): The bodies of around 40 illegal migrants were recovered late Sunday after their boat sank in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Libya’s Al-Khums city, a Libyan official said Monday. “Around 140 illegal migrants are feared dead,” Nasser Oneiba, an officer from Libya’s Illegal Migration Administration, told Anadolu Agency, adding that the boat […]

1st Jun 2015

EU mission rescues 5,000 migrants in three days

The EU’s border-control agency has said that some 5,000 migrants have been plucked from the Mediterranean Sea over the past three days. The Frontex rescue mission Triton also recovered the bodies of 17 would-be migrants. An Italian coast guard vessel brought the 17 corpses ashore at the port of Augusta on the southern island […]

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