boat capsize
58 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania
World
December 5, 2019
58 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat…
With 100 killed, Tunisia boat wreck becomes year’s deadliest migrant disaster
Middle East
June 5, 2018
With 100 killed, Tunisia boat wreck becomes year’s deadliest migrant disaster
At least 100 people are believed to have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia…
Rohingya refugee boat capsizes on way to Bangladesh, 12 dead: police
World
October 9, 2017
Rohingya refugee boat capsizes on way to Bangladesh, 12 dead: police
A boat carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees to Bangladesh capsized and at least 12 people, most of them children, drowned, police…
Egyptian court jails 56 over migrant boat shipwreck
Egypt
March 26, 2017
Egyptian court jails 56 over migrant boat shipwreck
An Egyptian court sentenced 56 people to prison on Sunday over the capsizing of a migrant boat that left over…
500 migrants drowned at sea. No one investigated
Egypt
December 7, 2016
500 migrants drowned at sea. No one investigated
At around 2 a.m. on Saturday, April 9, a large blue fishing boat carrying hundreds of African migrants and their…
Egypt refers two officials to court for migrant boat capsizing
Egypt
December 4, 2016
Egypt refers two officials to court for migrant boat capsizing
Egypt has referred two maritime inspection officials to trial for their role in the capsizing of a migrant ship that…
Three workers injured as boats sink in Suez Canal
Egypt
August 29, 2016
Three workers injured as boats sink in Suez Canal
Three Suez Canal workers were injured on Sunday night when two launches for the canal's authority capsized in the waterway.…
Between 700-900 migrants may have died at sea this week: NGOs
World
May 30, 2016
Between 700-900 migrants may have died at sea this week: NGOs
At least 700 migrants may have died at sea this past week in the busiest week of migrant crossings from…
Five more Indonesian bodies wash ashore in Malaysia after boat tragedy
World
January 27, 2016
Five more Indonesian bodies wash ashore in Malaysia after boat tragedy
Five more bodies believed to be those of illegal Indonesian migrants were found in Malaysia on Wednesday following a boat…
13 migrants drown in latest Aegean Sea sinking
World
December 23, 2015
13 migrants drown in latest Aegean Sea sinking
At least 13 people including seven children, drowned when their overloaded boat capsized in the Aegean, police said Wednesday, the…