Three migrant sisters drown in ‘dangerously overcrowded’ boat, 65 others rescued at sea: ‘Sheer horror’
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Three migrant sisters drown in ‘dangerously overcrowded’ boat, 65 others rescued at sea: ‘Sheer horror’
ITALY - Three young Sudanese sisters fleeing their war-torn country drowned in the central Mediterranean after their overcrowded rubber dinghy began taking on water in rough seas, according to a German nonprofit.
The three girls, ages 9, 11 and 17, were crammed on a small boat alongside dozens of other migrants on the sea corridor that stretches from Zuwara, Libya, toward the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
Roughly 65 people were bunched together aboard a flimsy inflatable as waves climbed to about five feet, the German rescue charity RESQSHIP said in a statement. The vessel is believed to have set sail from Libya either late Friday or early Saturday morning and was headed for Italy.
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