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World Service,1 min

Why rescue turns to disaster for migrant boats

Newsday

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Flavio Di Giacomo from the International Organisation for Migration in Italy tells us how rescue attempts in the Med often turn to disaster as desperate migrants rush to get on board ships that arrive to help them. Hopes are fading for 200 missing after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast. Hundreds of people have been rescued but at least 25 bodies have been found. (Picture A child is carried aboard a rescue boat off the Libyan coast. Credit - Reuters)

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