Twelve drown trying to reach aid off Gaza beach while airstrikes kill dozens, Palestinian authorities say
Gaza Reuters Twelve people drowned trying to reach aid dropped by plane off a Gaza beach, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, amid growing fears of famine nearly six months into Israel’s military campaign. Video of the airdrop obtained by Reuters showed crowds of people running towards the beach, in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, […]
Tunisia recovers 901 bodies of drowned migrants off its coast this year
Tunis, TunisiaReuters The Tunisian coast guard recovered 901 bodies of drowned migrants off its coast from 1st January to 20th July this year, the country’s interior minister, Kamel Feki, said on Wednesday, marking an unprecedented number of victims off the country’s coasts. A view shows boats that were used by migrants and seized by Tunisian […]
At least 15 migrants drown off coast of Senegal capital Dakar
Dakar, SenegalReuters At least 15 people drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Senegal’s capital Dakar on Monday, Senegal’s President Macky Sall said on Monday. The incident occurred offshore from one of the country’s popular beaches in the Ouakam area in the early hours of Monday. Locals remove fuel containers from […]
Families of missing in Greece migrant boat disaster plead for recovery of bodies
Athens, GreeceReuters Since Matloob Hussain from Pakistan went missing during a deadly shipwreck off Greece last month, his brother Adil has left the door of his Athens home open in the hope he appears. It will stay open until his body is found. Matloob, 43, is among hundreds of migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt […]
Updated: At least 79 drown, hundreds missing in migrant shipwreck off Greece
Updated: 9:25am, 15th June, 2023 (AEST)Athens, GreeceReuters At least 79 migrants drowned early on Wednesday and hundreds more were missing and feared dead after their overloaded boat capsized and sank in open seas off Greece, in one of Europe’s deadliest shipping disasters in recent years. As a painstaking search for survivors continued, a European rescue-support charity […]
As Tunisia votes, coastal town’s youth dream only of Europe
Zarzis, TunisiaReuters Tunisia holds an election on Saturday but, in the coastal town of Zarzis, teenager Ismail Challahki and others like him couldn’t care less. All they’re waiting for is the chance to risk their lives on another smugglers’ boat bound for Europe. A dozen years after the country’s revolution triggered the Arab spring, poverty […]
Number drowned trying to cross Mediterranean passes 5,000 in worst ever annual toll
The number of people who have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 has surpassed 5,000 – the worst annual death toll yet seen, according to the United Nations refugee agency. In the latest incidents it’s estimated that 100 people drowned on 22nd December in two incidents in which rubber dinghies collapsed […]