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At least 94 dead, 250 missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - At least 94 people died and 250 were missing after a boat packed with African migrants sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, the coastguard said.
Bodies fished from the water were laid out along the quayside as the death toll rose in what looked like one of the worst disasters to hit the perilous route for migrants seeking to reach Europe from Africa.
"It's horrific, like a cemetery, they are still bringing them out," Lampedusa Mayor Giusi Nicolini told reporters.
The coastguard said 151 survivors had been rescued after the 20-metre (66 ft) boat caught fire and sank about 1 km (half a mile) off the island.
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said around 500 passengers, all Eritreans, had boarded the boat in Libya. . . .
These things are on the heads of the open-borders fanatics in all Western nations, who have succeeded in making it possible for migrants to sneak into the First World if they try hard enough and hit it lucky. So we accept millions, they 'chain-in' their families, we have serial amnesties and then expect that more illegals will not be encouraged to make their own desperate attempts.
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