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Monday 20 April 2015

Over 900 feared dead after boat overturned Libya


Horrendous sight: A man carries the body of a dead child onto the Greek island of Rhodes after a wooden sailing boat carrying dozens of people ran aground, killing at least three people in one of a number of tragedies involving migrant vessels over the last two days
Three people died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants ran aground on the Greek holiday island of Rhodes.
Beach-goers were among the first to come to survivors' rescue as emergency services off the coast of Libya continued to survey the horror of an earlier disaster.
Harrowing: Video footage shows a large, wooden double-masted boat with people packed on board, just metres away from the Greek island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Around 1,000 people are thought to have died in several migrant boat disasters in just 24 hours On dry land: A woman appears to collapse with exhaustion in her rescuers arms after being plucked from the Mediterranean Sea
  

Three bodies have already been recovered from the water and a further 80 people have been rescued so far, a Greek coast guard official said  

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