Five illegal immigrants drown after vessel sinks
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Five illegal Afghan immigrants drowned in the freezing waters of the Aegean after the wooden vessel they were on board sank in heavy seas off Samos, Greece's semi-official Athens News Agency reported Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO &#151; Jacqueline Coats' husband drowned after he dove into a fierce Pacific Ocean riptide to rescue two boys. Now the immigrant from Kenya might be forced to leave the United States because he died before filing her residency application.
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Seventeen would-be immigrants drowned and 47 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend, the Tunisian navy and eyewitnesses revealed.
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The bodies of 24 people believed to be illegal migrants are washed ashore in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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A tunnel being dug so that Palestinians could smuggle material from Egypt into Gaza collapsed yesterday leaving at least five people dead.
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A smuggling tunnel being dug by  Palestinians on the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed on Friday and  at least five people were trapped inside, witnesses in the Gaza  frontier town of Rafah said.
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Two Cuban migrants died after their vessel capsized trying to race to Florida in the latest incident in the past month involving a suspected smuggling vessel, Cuban authorities said on Thursday.
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The Spanish coast guard intercepted a drifting boat of would-be immigrants from Africa on Thursday and found 30 dehydrated survivors standing atop 13 bodies in what emergency service officials described as a scene of "horror."
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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants drowned when a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, adding it was checking reports the death toll was as high as 78.
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A recovery team worked on a steep, rocky mountainside near the US-Mexico border Monday to remove the bodies of five people killed when their air ambulance crashed shortly after takeoff.
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Icy conditions are blamed for the deaths of 13 migrants aboard a boat headed for the Canary Islands in Spain.
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Rescuers scoured the seas off the Canary Islands Thursday for around 50 illegal immigrants who went missing after their vessel capsized as it was trying to reach the Spanish archipelago, emergency services said.
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The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore Friday in southern Mexico, a state official said, after a boat believed to be carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific Ocean.
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Authorities have recovered the bodies of 15 Central American migrants whose boat capsized in the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican navy said on Saturday. The vessel was believed to be carrying more than 20 migrants.
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A boat carrying nearly 200 Asian immigrants arrived off this port south of Tenerife in the Canary Islands and the first of them were taken off in a lifeboat.
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A driver suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border lost control of the car while fleeing federal authorities, causing a rollover crash that killed one passenger and injured seven others.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned