Dozens Killed as Yet Another Migrant Boat Sinks
Posted by feww on October 12, 2013
Global Disasters/ Significant Events – October 12, 2013
Yet another migrant boat sinks off Italy in last week’s Déjà vu
At least 36 people were killed when a boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsized and sank in the Mediterranean sea, said reports.
The boat capsized about 120km off the Italian island of Lampedusa, where at least 339 people drowned on October 3, when their boat capsized and sank less than 600 meters from the island.
Last week’s disaster occurred when a boat similar to the one above caught fire as it headed toward Lampedusa Island, south of Sicily. Source: UNHCR
Today’s incident was the third migrants boat disaster in the Mediterranean in two weeks. Thirteen people drowned off the southern coast of Italy on Monday September 30 after they attempted to swim ashore from a foundering vessel, said UNHCR.
In August, six migrants drowned after they jumped out of a boat off the coast of Sicily and attempted to swim ashore.
In July seven immigrants drowned as they held on to a fishing cage that was being towed to shore.
13 immigrants drowned off the coast of Sicily on Monday after they attempted to swim ashore from a foundering vessel. Photo credit: Reuters.
Sicily and the surrounding islands are ideal portals for desperate refugees and illegal immigrants from Libya, Tunisia, sub-Saharan Africa in search of employment and a better quality of life, said UNHCR.
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