At least 144 refugees and migrants have been reported dead or missing after a series of maritime incidents off the coast of Mauritania, in the latest tragedy on the increasingly dangerous Atlantic migration route from West Africa to Europe’s Atlantic islands.
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Rescuers on Saturday evening found five survivors, including a 7-year-old girl, from a passenger boat that sank earlier in the week in eastern Indonesia waters and were searching for 20 other people still missing.
At least 10 people died and more than 30 are still missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia, officials said on Wednesday.
Authorities say a boat carrying about 60 migrants, including women and children, bound for European shores capsized off the coast of eastern Libya in the latest maritime tragedy off the North African country
The occupants are said to have alerted the Coast Guard shortly after the vessel developed engine failure, prompting the Mauritanian Coast Guard Rescue Unit in Nouakchott to quickly launch a rescue operation
Five men were arrested in Varanasi on June 23 after the Dashashwamedh police took suo motu cognisance of a video purportedly showing them cooking chicken and drinking beer on a small boat on the Ganges. The five were released on bail the same day. Curiously, the FIR mentioned Sections 196 (2) and 299 of the…