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muriel_volestrangler

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Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:55 AM Jun 2014

Italy finds 30 bodies in migrant boat

Source: BBC

The Italian navy has found about 30 bodies in a fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants between Sicily and the North African coast.

The migrants who died appeared to have been asphyxiated.

The discovery was made when rescuers boarded the vessel to evacuate a number of people said to be in distress, two of them pregnant women.

The navy says that over the weekend it rescued more than 5,000 migrants trying to cross from North Africa.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28082969



People are desperate. And Africa's population is sky-rocketing, producing even more desperate people.
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Italy finds 30 bodies in migrant boat (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 OP
Better send the Pope over to deny contraception.... PassingFair Jun 2014 #1
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