More than 200 migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

More than 200 migrants are feared dead in a boat sinking off the coast of Libya, a Spanish aid organisation says.

Proactiva Open Arms said it had recovered five bodies floating near two capsized boats, which can each hold more than 100 people.

The group's Laura Lanuza said the five they pulled from the Mediterranean were young men who appeared to have drowned.

A spokesman for Italy's coast guard, which co-ordinates rescues, confirmed the five deaths, Reuters reports.


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[iluvtennis]

1. OMG, so sad that ppl die trying to seek liberation and a better life

[LoisB]

2. Sad news.

[Judi Lynn]

3. It takes a lot of suffering before people realize they have to leave their homelands to survive.

So many people seem to have been born into lives which don't allow them to live at all, thanks to the greedy monsters among us.

Rest in peace to these people who died because their painful lives drove them to desperation.