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August 17, 2015

49 Migrants Asphyxiated in Boat Trying to Reach Europe 
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Italian and Norwegian authorities have discovered the bodies of 49
migrants who appear to have asphyxiated to death in the hold of an
overcrowded fishing boat as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to
Europe. More than 300 people on deck were rescued, but those in the hold
died amid exhaust fumes and suffocating heat. The war in Syria has
helped fuel the worst refugee crisis since World War II; at least 2,300
people have died this year trying to reach Europe by boat.

 

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