Migrant Boat Was 'deliberately Sunk' In Mediterranean Sea, Killing 500

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
17 September 2014
Tags:
Egypt, Governance, Transport and Shipping

About 500 migrants are feared to have drowned after the boat carrying them from Egypt to Malta was apparently rammed and deliberately sunk by people-traffickers, an intergovernmental group has said. The news - based on the accounts of two Palestinian survivors - emerged on the same day up to 200 more people were feared dead when another boat heading to Europe capsized off Libya.

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