[DiMMuBoRGiR]

(08/23/2014) Scores of African migrants trying to reach Europe were feared dead last night after their boat sank off the Libyan coast.

Only 26 of the 250 had been rescued, a Libyan navy spokesman said. Ayub Qassem told Reuters that the boat had sunk near Tajoura, east of the capital, Tripoli. He said: "There are so many dead bodies floating in the sea."

Libya is a major departure point for migrants leaving Africa, often for Italy, but the use of rickety wooden boats has resulted in hundreds of deaths.

Human traffickers are exploiting the political chaos and lack of security that has blighted Libya since Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown as leader in an uprising in 2011.

The latest incident comes just weeks after another wooden boat heading for Italy sank half a mile off the Libyan coast, killing 100 people.

More than 100,000 have survived the journey so far this year, according to the Italian government.

Qassem said that the Libyan coastguard was underequipped to deal with the scale of the problem and had few resources to search for survivors.

The agency mainly exists on paper and relies on fishing boats and tugs it borrows from the oil ministry.

Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, has called on the EU to take responsibility for rescuing migrants attempting the sea crossing, and on the UN to help curb the flow of refugees from Libya.

[DiMMuBoRGiR]

Another boat sinks today http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...li-disaster-eu

[JakeHarper]

Can´t really say i´m feeling sad. Only a small percentage of them are willing to accept the laws of the countries they are trying to sneak into because they are muslims and nothing more than a cost factor.

[Hugo L.]

Feel-good news of the day.

[DiMMuBoRGiR]

This is a real disaster for the Italian state.
2013: 60.000 immigrants saved
2014: 124.380 immigrants saved
1.600 immigrants who died only in June

[Oswald2001]

They are just dead weight that will join in the joyful tearing down of another Western nation and turn it into another moo slum cesspool.

[thckoitin]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29203312

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) quoted two Palestinian survivors as telling them that the traffickers deliberately sank the boat after an argument on board.

[Feirefiz]

I'm so proud to be a European!
As one can clearly see in these pictures, Europe has taken the moral leadership eventually.
Wasn't it a great idea to give border safety into the hands of a PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY (look it up!) because Europe must no have joint border control.
And how smart and righteous we were to pay Ghaddafi to build Concentration Camps in Libya to withhold those moochers? They should not have come in the first place, should've they?
Isn't it THEIR fault that our wealth is founded on their poverty?
There is always an alternative!
Western-pampered warlords in your home-country might pay you a good fraction of a Dollar per hour if you work in their mines and, who knows?, in a few years, you might own a mine for yourself and have an iPhone. How does that sound?

[kellyhound]

in a wooden boat packed with people crossing the Mediterranean Sea is asking for a disaster

[DiMMuBoRGiR]

tODAY 16/09/2014
Nuovi sbarchi, 169 siriani a Catania - E' giunta poco dopo le 8.30 nel porto di Catania la nave d'altura Fiorillo della Guardia Costiera con a bordo 169 migranti soccorsi nel Canale di Sicilia. Lo sbarco è coordinato dalla Prefettura. La Procura ha delegato indagini su eventuali scafisti alla squadra mobile della Questura. Dalla nave sono stati fatti sbarcare 144 uomini, 10 donne e 15 minorenni, di probabile nazionalità siriana, che fuggono dalla guerra. I migranti sono stati trasferiti nel Palaspedini, dove sono in corso le procedure di identificazione.