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4/24/2022 8:21:00 PM
Survivors of a doomed migrant boat blamed the Lebanese navy on Sunday for sinking it, saying a naval vessel rammed the packed ship while trying to force it back to shore.
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4/16/2022 9:11:49 PM
A migrant boat has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving at least 35 people dead or presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said Saturday. It was the second tragedy in less than a week involving migrants departing from North Africa to seek a better life in Europe.
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1/22/2022 10:00:03 AM
Four people died after a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants on the Mediterranean Sea sank off Tunisia's coast, the Tunisian Defense Ministry said Friday.
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12/25/2021 12:56:39 PM
Greek coast guards scoured for survivors in the Aegean Sea on Saturday after the latest in a series of migrant boat accidents that have killed at least 30 people in just days.
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12/23/2021 11:25:35 PM
At least four migrants died after their boat was grounded on an islet north of the Greek island of Antikythera on Thursday, the Greek coastguard said.
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12/22/2021 10:41:59 PM
Greek authorities ramped up a major sea-and-air search and rescue operation in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday after a migrant smuggling vessel sank, leaving at least three people dead and dozens reported missing.
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11/25/2021 11:56:08 AM
A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with the migrant boat that sank in the English Channel, killing at least 27 people, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Thursday.
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11/24/2021 9:54:09 PM
At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died Wednesday when their boat sank in the English Channel in the ``biggest tragedy'' involving migration to have taken place on the dangerous crossing to date, according to France's interior minister.
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11/13/2021 8:28:47 PM
Cyprus police have suspended one officer and 11 constables after launching an investigation into how a boat loaded with migrants gave them the slip and continued its journey to Italy after docking at a local harbor.
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7/26/2021 10:28:02 PM
The survivors, who are from Nigeria, Ghana and Gambia, reported the vessel had stopped due to an engine problem, then capsized amid bad weather, Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for IOM said
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7/23/2021 7:31:55 PM
Greek and Turkish coast guards are searching for at least eight people who remained missing after a boat carrying 45 migrants sank off the coast of Crete, officials said on Friday
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7/2/2021 1:04:34 PM
The EU trains, equips and supports the Libyan coast guard to intercept people trying to cross the Central Mediterranean to Europe
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4/17/2021 4:38:07 PM
An estimated 40 people were aboard the boat which sank Friday off the coast of Sfax in the Mediterranean Sea and the search for the missing continued, according to Ali Ayari, spokesman for the port city's National Guard
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12/24/2020 9:04:00 PM
More than 40 people were on board the makeshift boat, said Mourad Turki, a spokesman for the Sfax court.
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11/19/2020 12:33:43 PM
Driven by economic hardship during the coronavirus pandemic that has forced thousands to seek a better life, thousands of migrants moved to the Canary Islands this year
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10/13/2020 10:43:06 PM
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10/12/2020 9:00:52 AM
Tunisia's coast guard recovered the bodies of eight women and three children off the coast near Sfax late on Sunday, he said
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8/7/2020 3:55:22 PM
A boat en route towards Spain's Canary Islands ran into engine trouble between the northern Mauritanian city of Nouadhibou and the city of Dakhla in Western Sahara
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7/19/2020 4:58:14 PM
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6/9/2020 3:47:09 PM
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