As Many As 500 Migrants Feared Dead In Mediterranean Shipwreck - Newsy

Only 41 migrants survived after an overly-crowded ship capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea. This instance, back in mid-April, is said to be one of the biggest migrant tragedies in the last year.
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As many as 500 migrants may have died trying to get to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea.
The United Nations Refugee Agency said Wednesday that 41 people survived the shipwreck in mid-April. Survivors said smugglers were attempting to transfer people from a smaller ship to a larger one that was already overcrowded.
That's when the bigger boat overturned and sank. The survivors were either still on the smaller ship or managed to swim from the larger vessel to the smaller one.
The survivors were from Somalia, Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan. The U.N. said the shipwreck was "one of the worst tragedies" involving migrants in the past year.
This video includes clips from SOS Mediterranee and images from Twitter / @ItalianNavy.
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[@lifetraders]

Who gets in a small boat with 499 people?

[@rileyj7066]

People trying to survive

[@tinnsell]

ONLY 500 OF THE FILTHY SCUM ????? WAS HOPING IT WOULD BE AT LEAST 5000, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME HUH ??

[@antithugpro1190]

500 "feared" dead? What do they mean "feared"? :p

[@littlelevi4022]

*like*

[@uncletrash3278]

ha finally some good news. sink the rest