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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 ...
Eastern Mediterranean, showing Adriana ' s route and Kalamata, Messenia, where survivors were taken. The Italy-bound "rusted, aging", overloaded migrant boat was a fishing trawler, [8] named Adriana, [a] [42] that was estimated to be around 20 to 30 metres (66 to 98 ft) long. [43]
The Anadolu Agency said that the boat carried "some 200 people", [14] while survivors stated that the number was between 150 and 240. [12] The boat sank while attempting to land after it crashed into rocks in rough weather conditions. Video footage of the incident shows timber from the boat broken into pieces and floating along the beach.
About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead from a boat that made a grueling sea voyage from Bangladesh and sank off Indonesia’s coast this week with 75 survivors, U.N. agencies ...
BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — A boat carrying migrants ripped apart in the English Channel as they attempted to reach Britain from northern France on Tuesday, plunging dozens into the ...
The boat was carrying 39 Palestinians, 35 from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp and 4 from Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. [4] The majority of the victims were Syrians from Idlib, Aleppo and Latakia. [13] The Lebanese Army arrested an individual believed to be related to the smuggling. [4] Funerals for the deceased were held in Tripoli. [14]
Last week, a fishing boat packed with about 750 men, women and children capsized off the coast of Greece, with hundreds believed to have died Obama calls out obsession with Titanic sub while ...
The 2024 Nouakchott migrant boat disaster occurred on 22 July 2024, when a pirogue carrying hundreds of migrants capsized near the coast of Nouakchott, the capital and largest city of Mauritania. At least 15 migrants were killed in the disaster, with over 195 more categorized as missing.