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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Dozens found dead on Libyan refugee boat

2011-08-01

Italian coast guard officers on Sunday found the corpses of 25 young men aboard a boat near Lampedusa, ANSAmed reported on Monday (August 1st). After Italian officers boarded a 15-metre-long raft carrying 296 harragas, including women and children, they found the bodies in an engine room "accessible only through a 50-centimeter wide trap door", RFI reported. Investigators suspect the immigrants died of asphyxiation from a gas leak.

Source: Magharebia.
Link: http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/newsbriefs/general/2011/08/01/newsbrief-02.

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