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77 migrants dead after boat sinks
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At least 77 people were killed when a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria this week, the country's health minister said Friday, amid fears the death toll could be far higher.
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At least 77 dead when boat carrying migrants sinks off Syria
The incident was deadliest so far as a surging number of Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinians have been trying to flee crisis-hit Lebanon by sea for a better future in Europe.
At least 77 people were killed when a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria this week, the country’s health minister said Friday, amid fears the death toll could be far higher. The incident was deadliest so far as a surging number of Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians have been trying …
A migrant boat from Lebanon sank off the coast of Syria, killing at least 73 people. The Lebanese migrants were heading to Europe to escape a total economic collapse in Lebanon.
Syria's health minister says at least 77 people died when a boat with migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria's coast this week. The minster was quoted by state TV on Friday as saying that he fears the death toll from the disaster in Syrian waters was not final.
At least 61 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, a Lebanese minister said Friday, the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years.
Up to 120 Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese thought to have been on vessel heading to Europe as masses flee deepening economic crisis; authorities raid suspected smugglers
DAMASCUS, Syria — The death toll from a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon that sank in Syrian waters has risen to at least 73, state TV quoted Syria’s health minister as saying on Friday. Syrian authorities said some family members of the victims have started crossing into Syria from neighboring
At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.
At least 77 people were killed when a boat carrying migrants sank off Syria this week, the country's health minister said Friday, amid fears the death toll could be far higher.
At least 73 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years.Lebanon, which since 2019 has been mired in a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in mode…
At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.Lebanon, which since 2019 has been mired in a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the wo…
Eighty-nine bodies have been recovered since a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria's coast, Syrian state media said Saturday, as the Lebanese army said it arrested a suspected smuggler…
Thirteen more bodies were recovered Saturday after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off the Syrian coast, raising the overall toll to 90, Syrian state television said, in one of the eastern Mediterranean's deadliest such shipwrecks.
Eighty-nine bodies have been recovered since a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria's coast, Syrian state media said Saturday, as the Lebanese army said it arrested a suspected smuggler behind one of the deadliest recent shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.
The bodies of migrants who died when their boat sank off the coast of Syria have been returned to Lebanon. Syrian authorities say at least 86 people drowned - but the actual toll could be much higher.
At least 77 people were killed when a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria this week, the country's health minister said Friday, amid fears the death toll could be far higher.
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