Twenty-two die, 42 missing as immigrant boat sinks off Tunisia
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Twenty-two would-be immigrants drowned and 42 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, according to official figures.
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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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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.
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Navy warships and fishermen pulled 21 bodies from the Java Sea, more than doubling the death toll from an Indonesian ferry fire to 41, a navy spokesman said Sunday.
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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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Fourteen people were killed and an unknown number were missing after a boat with a capacity for 150 passengers sank off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, officials said on Sunday.
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Scores of migrants who spent days at sea were missing and feared dead Sunday after their boat wrecked off Senegal's coast, the Red Cross said.
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Two ships collided just outside Israel's northern port of Haifa late Thursday, Israeli officials said. One of the ships sank, and 14 of its sailors were rescued, but two were missing, they said.
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Rescuers on Thursday found 13 bodies and at least four people suffering from severe hypothermia in a boat that was towed to this island in Spain s Canary archipelago, emergency services officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A boat sank while crossing a river in Afghanistan's most dangerous province, killing about 60 Taliban fighters and civilians, officials said yesterday. Elsewhere, 34 other suspected Taliban were killed during a military operation.
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Twenty-four people were killed and eight injured when a bus with 40 passengers plunged into a river in Uttaranchal late on Tuesday, a government official said.
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Thirty people are missing after an Indonesian sailboat sprang a leak and sank on Thursday off the island of Sulawesi, a rescue official said.
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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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Politics: 6 September 2004, Monday. Two women and a man from Bulgaria have drowned in a dam near the Spanish town of Mekinenanza, the province of Zaragoza, when their boat toppled over and cast all 13 people on ...
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Thirteen people have perished on board a makeshift boat as they attempted a perilous voyage, in search of a new life. The victims were from Africa.
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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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TUNISâA ship carrying illegal immigrants to Italy sank off Tunisia, killing at least 22 people and leaving another 42 missing, news reports said yesterday, sharpening the debate in Italy over how to deal with hundreds of people trying to slip into