Tag: drown
Senegal shipwreck claims 140 lives
In the deadliest shipwreck recorded to date this year, at least 140 people drowned after a vessel carrying about 200 migrants sank off Senegal,...
Migrants drown off Morocco
Seven Moroccan migrants were found dead off Morocco’s Atlantic coast near Casablanca after their boat capsized, the interior ministry said.
Three others were taken...
Migrants drown off Tunisia
At least 50 migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they left Libya hoping to reach...
Migrants feared drowned off Djibouti
More than 130 African migrants were missing off Djibouti after two overloaded boats capsized in rough seas, the United Nations migration agency said.
The vessels...
Migrants drown off Spain
Three migrants drowned and 354 were rescued from dinghies in Spanish waters the maritime rescue service said.
The nationalities of the dead...
Fears migrants drowned off Guinea Bissau
Around 60 migrants are missing believed drowned after their boat was seen sinking off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, a coast guard commander...
Libya boat wreck claims 100 plus lives
More than 100 migrants died this month when crowded rubber boats were wrecked off the coast of Libya, the MSF aid agency...
Dead migrants found in Spanish waters
Five migrants drowned and 193 were rescued in the western Mediterranean Sea off the Spanish coast, the Spanish coastguard said, after six...
More migrants drown off Libya
Survivors reported about 220 migrants drowned off Libya in the last few days while trying to reach Europe, putting the death toll...
Migrants drown in Aegean Sea
Sixteen people, including five children, drowned when the small boat they were on capsized in the Aegean Sea, Greek coast guard officials...
Twenty-three migrants missing, probably dead, on Libya/Italy trip
Twenty-one migrants are missing and probably drowned after a rubber dinghy and a wooden boat set off from Libya for Italy and...
Migrants drown as boat sinks off Libya
Up to 64 migrants died off the coast of Libya when their flimsy boat sank, humanitarian groups said after talking to survivors...
Five migrants drown off Libya
At least five migrants died and an unknown number are missing after their boat capsized off western Libya, Libyan coastguard officials and...
More migrant bodies recovered by Tunisian navy
Tunisia's navy recovered 26 more Tunisian migrant bodies after a boat sank last week in a collision with a navy vessel, bringing...
Dozens drown as aid groups denounce Tripoli coastguard
More than 30 migrants, mostly toddlers, drowned when about 200 people without life jackets fell off a boat off the Libyan coast...
At least 16 drown in migrant boat sinking
At least 16 people, including two children, drowned when an inflatable boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off Greece's Lesbos Island, authorities...
Legal steps underway to have missing soldier declared dead
Legal steps have been started to declare a soldier who drowned while swimming at a KwaZulu-Natal beach more than three years ago...
Migrants die in stormy seas off Libya
At least 12 migrants died off the coast of Libya on Wednesday after they put to sea in stormy weather, the Italian...
Ninety plus migrants believed missing after boat sinks off Libya
More than 90 migrants are believed missing after their boat sank off the coast of western Libya on Wednesday, a coastguard spokesman...
Five migrants drown near Turkey coast
Five migrants - four women and one child - drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos close to...