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muriel_volestrangler

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11. Death toll rises to 232

Reply to pinto (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 07:32 PM

Oct 2013

Italian divers have recovered dozens more bodies from a boat carrying African migrants that sank on Thursday.

Thirty-eight bodies were freed from the hull, which divers had previously been unable to access. The official death toll now stands at 232.

Divers "unpacked a wall of people", a navy officer said, adding that corpses were "so entwined one with the other" they were difficult to pull out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24436779

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Dozens of migrants die in Italy boat sinking near Lampedusa [View all] pinto Oct 2013 OP

RT News is saying 62 dead. dipsydoodle Oct 2013 #1

Syria was the first thing that crossed my mind when I read the BBC report. (nt) pinto Oct 2013 #2

Oddly enough dipsydoodle Oct 2013 #3

Mayor of Lampedusa says those rescued are from sub-Saharan Africa muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #5

Wouldn't a ship from Somalia use the Suez canal ? dipsydoodle Oct 2013 #6

I assume they travelled overland in Africa and joined the ship somewhere on the North African coast muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #7

Same BBC link now updated further dipsydoodle Oct 2013 #8

This could be really bad - BBC now reports 82 dead, but hundreds still missing muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #4

Lampedusa? That's the place that the Pope visited recently. Beacool Oct 2013 #9

Over 130 dead - 40 bodies found inside wreck muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #10

Death toll rises to 232 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #11