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08/10/2004:

"28 African immigrants die trying to reach Italy"

ROME (AFP) - Twenty-eight refugees died attempting to reach Italy by boat from north Africa, Italian police said Sunday, citing accounts from some of the dozens of survivors rescued by a freighter off the Sicilian coast.

A total of 73 would-be immigrants were picked up from their drifting boat Saturday by the crew of the Gibraltar-registered container ship Zuiderdiep some 130 nautical miles southeast of Sicily, Italian authorities said.

Full Article : brunei-online.com