Italy on Friday in Rome confirmed the death of 12 migrants on Thursday when their overcrowded rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya.
It said no fewer than 500 others were rescued in the latest episodes in the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
Italian coast guards said the corpses of the victims were found in the sea by the Coast Guard ship, Dattilo, some 40 miles north of Libya.
The organisation said Dattilo saved 106 people from the same dinghy, which was half submerged when help arrived.
No details were available on the nationalities of the victims or those rescued.
It said Dattilo was still involved in other rescue operations involving boats in difficulty.
A total of 393 other migrants were saved in four different operations carried out by the Dattilo on Thursday.
Similarly, another 106 migrants were saved by two Coast Guard frigates operating off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
Tens of thousands of migrants fleeing war and hunger in Africa and the Middle East have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece in 2015.
Reports say investigation revealed that the vast majority of them are departing from the coast of Libya and no fewer than 2,000 migrants are estimated to have drowned.

http://www.punchng.com/news/12-migrants-drown-in-mediterranean-500-rescued/

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Italy on Friday in Rome confirmed the death of 12 migrants on Thursday when their overcrowded rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya.
It said no fewer than 500 others were rescued in the latest episodes in the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
Italian coast guards said the corpses of the victims were found in the sea by the Coast Guard ship, Dattilo, some 40 miles north of Libya.
The organisation said Dattilo saved 106 people from the same dinghy, which was half submerged when help arrived.
No details were available on the nationalities of the victims or those rescued.
It said Dattilo was still involved in other rescue operations involving boats in difficulty.
A total of 393 other migrants were saved in four different operations carried out by the Dattilo on Thursday.
Similarly, another 106 migrants were saved by two Coast Guard frigates operating off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
Tens of thousands of migrants fleeing war and hunger in Africa and the Middle East have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece in 2015.
Reports say investigation revealed that the vast majority of them are departing from the coast of Libya and no fewer than 2,000 migrants are estimated to have drowned.

http://www.punchng.com/news/12-migrants-drown-in-mediterranean-500-rescued/

poverty is a disease that kill more than h. I . V . Mother africa where were you when your children were drawn in the sea. Those people looking for greener pastures in overseas through deadly means just know that life is one chance when you loose it no hope for you any more. Find something doing all you need is to be creative, that will take you to where you desire without a risky.

trust Nija peepz to be among.E go better

eyaaah....

pictures of dead bodies pl

they risk their lives for pasture green, same can be said bou drug peddlers all banking on future gains.. forgetting the future is still unknown

Get rich or die trying.... Life is too short to remain poor