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Malta boat sinking 'leaves 500 dead' - IOM

About 500 migrants are feared dead after their ship was rammed by another boat near Malta last week, a migration body said. Two Palestinian survivors told the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that the boat had been intentionally sunk by traffickers. They said the boat had left Damietta in Egypt in early September. News of the sinking near Malta emerged as another vessel carrying 250 people sank off the coast […]