Egyptian officials have confirmed seven men died after their boat sank off the Libyan coast.<br /><br />They are the recent casualties in the wave of illegal migrants from Egypt that are taking to the shores in hopes of a better life abroad.<br /><br />Residents of the village the victims came from said the young men were short of choices with nothing but the prospect of abject poverty.<br /><br />Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh reports from Abu Gandeer, El Fayoum.
