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Egypt migrant boat capsize: Hundreds feared dead
Source: BBC
Survivors from a boat which capsized off the Egyptian coast on Wednesday have told the BBC that hundreds of people may have drowned.
The boat was carrying about 550 migrants when it capsized eight miles (12km) off the coast, they say.
Authorities have rescued 163 people and recovered 42 bodies so far off the port city of Rosetta.
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The boat was kept off the coast for five days as more and more migrants were brought on board, survivors told the BBC's Orla Guerin in Rosetta. Just over 100 of those rescued were Egyptians.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-37439294
So a boat can sit for days just a few miles off the coast of a supposedly functioning state, filling up with more and more migrants, until it sinks. What were the Egyptian authorities doing?
