Posted on 05/09/2011 9:15:08 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
MILAN (AP) — A ship carrying up to 600 migrants trying to flee Libya has sunk just off the coast of the North African country, the U.N. Refugee Agency said Monday, citing witness accounts.
The agency is trying to confirm what happened to the passengers when the vessel broke apart at sea shortly after leaving a port near Libya's capital Tripoli on Friday, spokeswoman Laura Boldrini said.
There was no information on how many people might have died, and the uprising in Libya makes any official accounting unlikely.
Witnesses who departed on another boat shortly after reported seeing the ship broken apart and bodies floating in the sea, Boldrini said. The second boat with witnesses aboard arrived later in Italy, she said.
The number of migrants fleeing North Africa's shores have increased since the region has been engulfed in a series of uprisings.
At least three other boats that departed Libya in late March have disappeared, with hundreds feared dead, Boldrini said.
She said that the UNHCR advised the Italian Coast Guard at the time that boats carrying 120 and 360 migrants respectively had departed Libya in late March but never arrived in Italy.
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Probably sunk by the Italians.
Poor maintenance, a mine, or just overloading. Take your pick.
Despite the attacks on our freedoms here at home, we are still blessed by God with the best nation on earth. We will overcome our challenges but these poor people are lost for good.
Obama’s fault.
Obama’s fault.
So, based on the Libs/Left/Democrat assessment of the Iraq War, the blood of these 600 innocents is on OBAMA’S HANDS, right??
I mean, these people wouldn’t be fleeing if not for Obama’s illegal Oil War for Europe, right?
Disclaimer: Not trying to be funny or cute with disaster such as this. Merely stating such a scenario is possible...Cousin Earl found such to be the case several years ago while cat fishing...
Did the US / UN fail to make any provisions to deal with refugees fleeing?
Seems like it.
“MIGRANTS” =
Media darlings who are actually nothing more than illegals with the criminal intent of sneaking past a nation’s sovereign borders.
And where is Obama’s policy?
600 down, millions to go.
I am sure the ‘Refugees’ were all men ages between 17 and 30 year old like the rest of them have been.
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