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meanwhile at the borders…
04.Sep.07: a cayuco carrying an estimated 70 immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa has capsized en route to the Canary Islands, after setting off from Mauritania. four bodies have been recovered and according to a French journalist who was travelling on the overturned boat another 20 people have yet to be found. 38 people were rescued and transported by the Moroccan navy to the port of Dajla. (source: typicallyspanish.com)
01.Sep.07: one person was known to have died and three were feared drowned in another tragedy off Sicily involving would-be immigrants arriving in a flimsy vessel from Africa. (source: earth times)
30.Aug.07: twenty-five migrants are missing, and are presumed to have drowned in the Mediterranean off Malta, after a small open boat carrying 28 migrants was intercepted by a Greek tugboat. as the tug approached the boat, the migrants moved to one side and the boat capsized in choppy seas and only three could be recovered by the crew of the tug. (source: reuters alertnet)
26.Aug.07: italian Navy pilots located six bodies, believed to be those of african would-be migrants, floating in the Mediterranean off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Five of these bodies have been recovered by a Italian Navy patrol boat. (source: malta today)
24.Aug.07: three migrants drowned when their boat carrying capsized in the Aegean Sea off the turkish town of Cesme in the western province of Izmir (source: international herald tribune)
20.Aug.07: One person died and three were seriously hurt when a patera carrying immigrants sank 80 miles SE of Fuerteventura on Sunday. Those injured are suffering from hyperthermia and dehydration. (source: typicallyspanish.com)