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April 21, 2016

Rescued refugees report hundreds drowned in Mediterranean

Coast Guard members help refugees to disembark April 17 at the port of Kalamata in Greece. The survivors told U.N. staff that they had been part of a group of between 100 and 200 people who departed from Libya the previous week. There are reports of up to 500 refugees drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.

ROME – The same day Pope Francis brought 12 Syrian refugees to Rome from Greece, a merchant ship rescued 41 refugees, including a three-year-old child. They told human rights workers they saw as many as 500 others drown when the refugees' boat sank.

Published in International