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113 rescued in Mediterranean Sea
A group of 113 sub-Saharan migrants were rescued from three small boats adrift in the Alboran Sea at the western end of the Mediterranean on Thursday while one person died, a Spanish official said. The rescuers launched an operation at around 4 a.m. to locate at least five boats that had set sail from Morocco …
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December 14, 2017 -
1,600 migrants, toddler’s corpse reach Italy
More than 1,590 migrants arrived in the Italian coastal city of Salerno on Tuesday along with the body a three-year-old child who died during the Mediterranean crossing. The toddler's corpse arrived aboard a Norwegian rescue vessel which had 990 migrants on board. The child will be buried in a local cemetery, officials said. Among the …
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May 9, 2017