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ITALY-LAMPEDUSA AFRICA MIGRANT
TRAGEDY AT SEA - ONLY 3 OF 100 WOMEN RESCUED - NO CHILDREN SAVED SO FAR
The mayor of
Lampedusa has said more needs to be done to address the issue of African
migrants trying to reach the Italian island, after a boat sank claiming at
least 130 lives.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24388709
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ROME
(AP) — A migration expert says only 3 of an estimated 100 women on a migrant
ship that capsized off Italy have been rescued, and no children have been saved
so far.
Italian
experts say at least 94 people have died in Thursday's shipwreck of the
southern island of Lampedusa.
Simona
Moscarelli, a legal expert for the International Organization for Migration in
Rome, told The Associated Press that "only the strongest survived"
the capsize and most of the migrants coming from Africa could not swim.
She
based her comments on her agency's early interviews with survivors.
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