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Rescuers search for missing migrants after boat capsizes near Italy

2013-10-03 44 Dailymotion

One by one, the body count is rising.<br/> <br />Coast Guard officials in Italy say a boat carrying hundreds of African migrants capsized, leaving scores dead or missing.<br/> <br />In video released by the Coast Guard, dozens of survivors huddle along the boat's side as rescuers search the waters off the coast of Lampedusa, east of Tunisia.<br/> <br />Officials say about 150 migrants had been rescued.<br/> <br />The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, said it believed there were around 500 passengers, all Eritreans who had boarded in Libya.<br/> <br />The accident comes just days after another boat sank off Sicily's coast, leaving 13 migrants dead.

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