UN says 800 migrants dead in boat disaster as Italy
launches rescue of two more vessels
Monday 20 April 2015
The United Nations has confirmed that the death toll from the weekend’s Mediterranean boat disaster is at least 800 – with the victims being of multiple nationalities.
Following interviews with some of the 27 survivors from the tragedy who arrived at the Italian port of Catania, officials for both the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that some of the dead were children between the ages of 10 and 12.
Police at the port also confirmed a Tunisian and a Syrian man who was among the survivors had been taken into custody over suspicions they were members of a smuggling gang thought to have organized the fatal voyage.
“There were a little over 800 people on board, including children aged between 10 and 12. There were Syrians, about 150 Eritreans, Somalians … They had left Tripoli at about 8 am on Saturday.”
“The only way you can stop the deaths is to stop the people smuggling trade. The only way you can stop the deaths is, in fact, to stop the boats,” Abbott told reporters in the nation’s capital, Canberra. “That’s why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.”
Before Sunday’s disaster, aid agencies estimated that 20,000 migrants had reached the Italian coast this year and 900 had died.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/italy-pm-matteo-renzi-migrant-shipwreck-crisis-srebrenica-massacre
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回覆刪除It is a very sorrowful news, hope the tragedy will end soon. All the refugee will find a save place to start their new lives.
回覆刪除What a bad news! I often think about things like this: why must those people who are poor or many wars in their country be suffered from bad things and who should be responsible for these? Maybe the government; maybe those bad guys; maybe everyone.
回覆刪除How a sad news it it! They just wanted to live. And I think Europe countries feel embarrassed because whether they offer shelters to the refugees or not , it also makes affect on their countries. But these refugees need a place to live. So it really a big problem around the world , and the culprit of it I consider is the terrorists. They cause many damage to this world. But , on the other hand , it seems that the power countries force they to do this. It really very complicated.
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