Migrants drown in high-seas rescue bid
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MADRID -- Spanish rescue services were searching the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands yesterday for about 50 African migrants who were feared to have drowned after their rickety boat capsized during a dramatic attempt to save them in rough seas.
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At least 20 migrants drowned when their boat split while sailing from Africa to Spain's Canary Islands, survivors told police Thursday.
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A boat carrying would-be immigrants to Italy capsized in the Mediterranean, killing at least 22 people and leaving dozens more missing.
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MONTERREY -- Mexico is demanding a formal investigation into the drowning deaths of three undocumented migrants who it said were forced to recross the Rio Grande by US Border Patrol agents who threw stones at the migrants. The Mexican consul in Eagle Pass, Texas, lodged a complaint with the Border Patrol this week after the three women migrants drowned in ...
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About 50 African migrants are missing off the Canary Islands after their boat sank, survivors say.
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A major rescue operation involving helicopters was under way on the coast of southwest England after dozens of people became trapped in their cars and homes by rising floodwaters, emergency services said.
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African migrants whose small boat was intercepted Saturday off the coast of Sicily said eight people died during their grueling, 10-day trip, the third deadly sea journey by migrants trying to reach Italy in less than a month.
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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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Two boats carrying would-be migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe sank Wednesday between Italy and Libya, leaving five people dead, including a child, Italian officials said. Eleven others were missing and presumed dead.
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AT LEAST 22 people were killed and dozens more missing after a boat carrying would-be immigrants to Italy capsized in the Mediterranean, reports said today.
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Rescuers said they found 13 dead aboard a drifting immigrant boat carrying 43 Africans on a desperate attempt to reach Spanish territory.
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A boat sailing to Italy sinks off Tunisia killing at least 17, as a row grows over Rome's moves to send migrants back.
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A boat loaded with Somali and Ethiopian migrants capsized in the Gulf of Aden during a treacherous night crossing in which at least 112 people died, a Yemeni official said Friday.
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National Guard officials mounted a rescue effort Thursday for two Korean backpackers stranded on an ice floe in the Bering Strait.
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The bodies of 10 migrants from West Africa are found off the coast of Gran Canaria after their boat capsized.
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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants trying to reach the Arabian peninsula drowned when their boat capsized off Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, citing Yemeni officials.
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Cornish coastguards were today involved in a desperate attempt to rescue 59 people cast adrift in an inflatable boat off the coast of Libya after falling victim to a human trafficking operation.