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June 21, 2023

Official Death Toll Reaches 81 in Migrant Shipwreck Near Greece, But Hundreds More Feared Dead
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Many are questioning the massive media coverage of the Titanic
adventurers in light of the lack of attention paid to the thousands of
migrants lost at sea as they attempt to reach Europe fleeing
persecution, poverty and the impacts of the climate crisis in their home
countries. This comes as authorities in Greece have recovered three more
bodies of men who drowned last week in one of the deadliest migrant
shipwrecks in years. The official death toll is 81, but The New York
Times reports as many as 700 migrants may have died when their
overcrowded ship sank off the coast of Greece.


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