
Body bags containing African migrants, who drowned trying to reach Italian shores, lie in the harbour of Lampedusa October 3, 2013. REUTERS/Nino Randazzo/ASP press office/Handout via Reuters
by Wladimir Pantaleone, Reuters – Posted by The Ethiopia Observatory
More than 100 people drowned and over 200 were unaccounted for after a boat packed with mostly Horn of Africa citizens, the majority Eritreans and citizens of Somalia, caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday.
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Tags: 100 dead, 200 missing, Eritreans, Horn of Africa, Italy, Lampedusa, Libya, political & economic problems, Somalis