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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Toll from shipwreck off Crete last week seen at 320 migrants

Some 320 migrants and refugees are now feared to have drowned in a shipwreck off the Greek island of Crete last week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday, citing survivors' testimony. The Greek coastguard said on Saturday that the migrants who survived had told authorities their boat set sail from Egypt with about 350 people. "We learned from survivors in Italy, in Augusta, that 648 or 650 men, women and children were on that ship.


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