EUROPE-MIGRANTS/PALERMO BODIES Italian coast guard brings 700 migrants, some dead, ashore

Record ID: 147540

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/PALERMO BODIES Italian coast guard brings 700 migrants, some dead, ashore
  • Date: 11th July 2015
  • Summary: PALERMO, SICILY, ITALY (JULY 11, 2015) (REUTERS) COAST GUARD VESSEL ARRIVING IN PORT HEARSE ARRIVING WITH EMPTY COFFINS EMPTY COFFIN BEING CARRIED ONTO VESSEL VARIOUS OF CRANE LIFTING COFFINS WITH BODIES OFF VESSEL AND ONTO PIER COFFIN BEING PLACED IN HEARSE VARIOUS OF CRANE LIFTING COFFIN OFF VESSEL COFFIN BEING PLACED IN HEARSE VARIOUS OF CRANE LIFTING ANOTHER COFFIN OFF
  • Embargoed: 26th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAEJGFQWS6TTRI9F12TSAF78DUY
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The Italian coast guard vessel Dattilo arrived in the port of Sicily's Palermo on Saturday (July 11), carrying the bodies of 12 drowned migrants and some 717 survivors rescued from several boats in the Mediterranean on Thursday (July 9).
    The 12 migrants died on Thursday when their overcrowded rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, the Italian coast guard said, in what was the latest episode in the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
    The corpses of the victims were found in the sea by the Dattilo some 40 miles north of Libya, a coast guard spokesman said.
    The Dattilo saved 106 people from the same dinghy, which was "half submerged" when help arrived.
    Following the rescue, the Dattilo was involved in other rescue operations involving boats in difficulty.
    No details were immediately available on the nationalities of the victims or those rescued.
    Several women and children could be seen among the migrants disembarking the coast guard vessel in Palermo.
    Tens of thousands of migrants fleeing war and hunger in Africa and the Middle East have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece this year, with the vast majority departing from the coast of Libya. More than 2,000 are estimated to have drowned.
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