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200 feared drowned as migrant boats sink  Yemen: At least 58 people, all Ethiopians except for four Somalis, are confirmed dead and a further 37 remain unaccounted Migrants toss dozens of dead overboard  Mauritania: Dozens of migrants trying to reach Europe spent 3 weeks at sea and threw 50 bodies overboard after the vessel lost power 'Dozens missing' as ferry sinks  Egypt: Princess Hidy ferry carrying a wedding party sank in the Nile south of Cairo in the river off Beni Sweif 'Ghost yacht' found Hundreds of stranded migrants go ashore  Mauritania: 400 African and Asian migrants began disembarking from a battered freighter intercepted by the Spanish coastguard Hundreds in limbo on disabled freighter  Mauritania: Hundreds of Asian and African migrants spent their 6th day aboard as Spain tried to convince African countries to take them in 13 migrant children drown  Morocco: The bodies have washed up on a Western Sahara beach, drowned when their small boat sank in the Atlantic 18 migrants drown, 12 missing  Morocco: The rickety boat carrying them to Canary Islands sank off the coast of Western Sahara 69 dead as ferry capsizes

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Malta fears 71 migrants drowned

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  As many as 71 Africans drowned after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea, 8 of their companions have told Maltese police

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  Djibouti: A boat ferrying passengers to a traditional festival overturned after leaving port about noon
Apr.2 Death boat: Search goes on  Bahrain: Bahrain recovered the body of an Indian man as it continued to search for an additional person Apr.1   Death boat's captain detained  Bahrain: The prosecutor: The captain did not have a license to pilot the boat Mar.31 'Too many on board' boat  Bahrain: The owners of a passenger boat have blamed overcrowding which led to the deaths of at least 57 people Mar.30 Ferry sinks carrying 150 people
  Bahrain: A total of 48 bodies have so far been recovered from the site. 52 people have been rescued
 Terrorism was ruled out by a senior Interior Ministry official The passengers were thought to be Bahrainis, nationals of other Gulf nations and Westerners
Mar.8 300 African migrants drown a month  Mauritania: More than 1,000 Africans have died in the past 4 months while trying to sail from Mauritania to Canary Islands Mar.6 40 migrants drown off Africa  Mauritania: The migrants heading for Spain's Canary Islands drowned when their boats sank Feb.16 Wreckage of ferry found  Egypt: Salvage experts have located the ferry which sank in the Red Sea 2 weeks ago killing about 1,000 people Feb.8 Ship blocks Suez Canal. Egypt Feb.5 Tensions high at ferry port. Egypt Ferry 'pressed on despite fire'  Egypt: A crew member said water used to extinguish a fire aboard caused the ship to list in heavy winds Hopes dim for ferry missing Hundreds feared died as ferry sinks  Egypt: 185 bodies and about 300 survivors were pulled from the water, but hundreds remained unaccounted Ship with 1,400 sinks in Red Sea
  Egypt: An aging passenger ferry loaded to near capacity with dozens of vehicles sank. 100 survivors had been rescued

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Dec.19 Capsized migrant boat 'kills 30'. Mauritania Cruise ship repels pirates

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Oct.4 Many drown as migrant ship sinks  Tunisia: Their boat sank while trying to reach Italy illegally. Another 47 are missing, presumed drowned

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Nuclear submarine sinks Jun.21 Hopes dim for missing. Tunisia Jun.20 Migrant boat sinks. 200 missing  Tunisia: 190 illegal immigrants are feared dead after their boat capsized on its way to Italy. The boat could originated in Libya

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Tanker sank spilling oil Oct.6 French tanker explodes
  Yemen: A blazing tanker is spewing crude oil into the sea after an explosion, blamed by French officials on a terrorist attack

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Oct.22 Hundreds of refugees drown   Indonesia: 350 mainly Iraqi migrants have drowned off Java. 400 people have been on board the boat



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