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On 14 June 2023, an Italy-bound fishing trawler smuggling migrants sank in international waters in the part of the Mediterranean known as the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The boat, named Adriana , [ a ] which had a capacity of 400 people, [ 9 ] carried an estimated 400 to 750 migrants, [ 10 ] [ 11 ...
The boat was carrying about 200 migrants when it sank, of whom at least 94 died, [1] including at least 35 children. [2] [3] Eighty-one people survived. [4] The shipwreck was one of Italy's worst migrant boat disasters. It led to a public outcry, and following an investigation conducted by journalists, both the Italian government and the ...
At least 45 migrants died when their wooden boat smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart off southern Italy before dawn Sunday, the Italian coast guard and U.N. agencies said. Survivors indicated ...
Migrants aboard an inflatable vessel before their rescue co-ordinated by USS Carney near Spain in February 2013. This article is a list of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea leading up to and resulting from the European migrant crisis with recent migration also related to developments such as the Arab Spring protests (2010–2012), civil wars in Syria (since 2011) and Libya ...
Eleven people died and more than 60 were missing, including 26 children, following two migrant shipwrecks off Italy's southern shores, aid groups, coastguard officials and U.N. agencies said on ...
TUNIS (Reuters) -The Tunisian coastguard said on Thursday it recovered the bodies of 13 sub-Saharan African migrants and rescued 25 after their boat sank en route for Italy. The tragedy occurred ...
On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was reported that the boat had sailed from Misrata, Libya, but that many of the migrants were originally from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana. [2] [3] [4] An emergency response involving the Italian Coast Guard resulted in the rescue of 155 ...
The vessel appeared to capsize after people abruptly moved to one side, authorities say. KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — A fishing The post At least 79 dead after migrant boat, possibly from Libya ...