(ANSAmed) - Rome, April 20 - The UN refugee agency UNHCR, has
spoken to survivors of a big shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the
Guardian said Wednesday. The boat with around 500 people on
board left Libya (and not, as initially reported, Egypt),
heading for Italy and the migrants were Somalis, Sudanese,
Ethiopians and Egyptians. Hundreds of migrants are believed to
have drowned.
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