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Greek court orders 9 smuggling suspects held pending trial over migrant ship disaster
1 year, 6 months ago

Greek court orders 9 smuggling suspects held pending trial over migrant ship disaster

Associated Press  

ATHENS, Greece — Nine men suspected of crewing a migrant smuggling ship that sank off Greece leaving more than 500 missing were ordered held in pretrial custody Tuesday, as new accounts emerged on the sinking and the appalling conditions on the trip from Libya towards Italy. “The Greek ship cast a rope and it was tied to our bows,” survivor …

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As death toll rises to 81, new accounts clash with official version of migrant disaster off Greece
1 year, 6 months ago

As death toll rises to 81, new accounts clash with official version of migrant disaster off Greece

Associated Press  

MALAKASA, Greece — The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean rose to 81 Monday after three more bodies were found off southern Greece, as more survivors claimed that the battered trawler had been under tow by another vessel just before it sank with hundreds of people aboard. “We said ‘no problem,’ so …

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Search for loved ones, truth in Greece after migrant boat tragedy
1 year, 6 months ago

Search for loved ones, truth in Greece after migrant boat tragedy

Al Jazeera  

Hundreds of people are missing after a refugee-filled vessel capsizes off Greece’s west coast, killing dozens. “I don’t know if you can consider these men lucky when there are people at the bottom of the sea,” said Mihalis Yiannakos, the head of Greece’s public hospital doctors’ union. “The trawler didn’t ask for any help from the coastguard or from Greece.” …

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Relatives fear worst with four men and a boy missing after Mediterranean ship disaster
1 year, 6 months ago

Relatives fear worst with four men and a boy missing after Mediterranean ship disaster

The Independent  

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Relatives fear worst with four men and a boy missing after Mediterranean ship disaster
1 year, 6 months ago

Relatives fear worst with four men and a boy missing after Mediterranean ship disaster

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Seeking to find lives better than they had in their war-scarred town in northeast Syria, four men and a 14-year-old boy from the Sheikhi family set out for Europe. “He wanted to save his children,” said Abdo Sheikhi, 38, Ali’s brother. “In Syria, there are no means for a life,” Abdo Sheikhi said. But they would not take …

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