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LILLE, France, Aug 12, 2023 (AFP) – Six people were killed when a boat carrying migrants heading to Britain sank in the Channel early Saturday, French maritime officials said, as a search continued to find those still missing. A spokeswoman from the French coastal authority Premar said between five and 10 passengers were still missing, while 55 had been rescued. Three French ships, a helicopter and a plane have been mobilised to search the area […]
by Suy SE Agence France Presse PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — More than 20 Chinese nationals are missing at sea after a boat capsized off the coast of Cambodia, an official said Friday. The boat carrying 41 Chinese people got into difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, Preah Sihanouk provincial spokesman Kheang Phearom told AFP, and only 18 of those on board had been rescued. The once-quiet fishing village of Sihanoukville has been transformed by a […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — An overcrowded smuggling boat capsized Sunday off the California coast after crashing into the shoreline, killing three people and leaving 27 people hospitalized with a range of injuries, authorities said. The accident happened Sunday morning off San Diego, with all aboard the 40-foot (12 meters) vessel jumping into the choppy water as it slowly disintegrated, witness video showed. “It was a smuggling vessel,” Jeffery Stephenson of the Customs […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — At least 44 people died and an unknown number went missing on Thursday when a ferry capsized in the south of Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, Tanzanian government officials said. “According to reports that President John Magufuli has just received from the authorities in Mwanza, the toll now stands at more than 40 dead,” Gerson Msigwa, the president’s spokesman said on state television, TBC 1. Regional governor John Mongella said late Thursday […]
