According to the UN at least 300 migrants are feared to have drowned after attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa this week in rough seas. 'UNHCR official Vincent Cochetel said it was a "tragedy on an enormous scale". Survivors brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa said they were forced to risk the bad weather on ill-equipped vessels by human traffickers in Libya.' (BBC News, 11 February) Desperate workers are prepared to take enormous risks just to get a job. RD
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The drowning of more than 300 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea this week could have been prevented...The UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, says more migrants are dying because search and rescue efforts have been reduced.
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