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| Over 100 dead in new migrant tragedy, second wreck feared |
| 2016-11-04 |
| [DAWN] At least 110 people are feared to have drowned off Libya when a migrant boat capsized, and more may have died in another stricken vessel, the UN's refugee agency said Thursday, citing survivor testimony. "A vessel with around 140 people on board overturned Wednesday just a few hours after setting off from Libya, throwing everyone into the water. Only 29 people survived," UNHCR spokesperson Carlotta Sami told AFP. The Norwegian vessel Siem Pilot was first on the scene, some 20 nautical miles off Libya, and rescued the survivors - all of whom were in poor condition after spending hours in the water - and recovered 12 bodies. Those pulled to safety were transferred to the island of Lampedusa by the Italian coasties. In what could be a second incident, which could not be immediately confirmed by the coasties, two women told the UN agency they believed they were the only survivors in an disaster in which some 125 people drowned. "They told us they were on a faulty dinghy which began to sank as soon as they set sail. They were the only survivors," Sami said. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) quoted the same survivors but put the total corpse count at around 240 people. "Not enough has been done so far to avoid these tragedies," intoned Flavio di Giacomo, IOM front man in Italia. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Yes, he did. The Snowy Thing has all sorts of talents. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-04 23:50 |
| #5 Snowy threw in some good ones. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-11-04 21:09 |
| #4 *happy sigh* I enjoyed the sequence last night, but too late to comment. My reward is that tonight there is yet more. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-04 18:24 |
| #3 I am in awe, Kansas. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-11-04 18:23 |
| #2 yet live to die again tonight in a dirty There, fixed that. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-11-04 18:20 |
| #1 I left the water closet fixed, yet a broken man. Mahmoud the Weasel. I know he has a mustache judging his cartoons, but who are you? Dark. Smokey. San Francisco dark. The odd fellow was working overtime on the shee-shaw. Maisha is motionless, if she is even in the window still. Odd fellow had a new bottle of Caliph Calvert. Hakeem must have had one hidden. It isn't all Hakeem has hidden. If I even thought about his secret, we both would be killed in our sleep. Another captain is seated at the end of the bar. He mutters something about fixing the boilmaker as the bartender pours a shot of Jagr. The captain drops the shot into a full mug and downs it like Madonna getting out the vote. The empty mug slams down next to three others, but he is alone; the captain's coat and Mae West are on the chair next to him. The captain stands, throws some dinars on the bar, and walks straight as a javelin out of the bar. He should have sea legs, and he left his coat and vest on the barstool. Tonight, I do not dare sail, yet live to die again tonight in dirty Sirte. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-11-04 14:36 |