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EU: Fortress Europe blog details 185 deaths in June

01 July 2008

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The Fortress Europe blog which tracks the deaths of migrants, details 185 deaths in June alone, 173 of which have taken place in the Channel of Sicily, where arrivals have risen three-fold, with other deaths also reported in the Canary Islands, Venice harbour, Turkey, where a Somali man was shot during a demonstration in a detention centre, and Israel, where three refugees were shot by police along the border with Egypt, including a seven-year-old Sudanese girl. The bulk of the deaths refer to a shipwreck in the high sea off the Libyan coast at Zuwarah on 7 June 2008, in which one survivor was rescued, 40 dead bodies were recovered and at least 100 people disappeared.

For full details, see: http://fortresseurope.blogspot.com/2006/01/giugno-2008.html (original, in Italian)

http://fortresseurope.blogspot.com/2006/01/june-2008.html (English version)

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