6 die in Syrian migrant capsize tragedy
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TWO Syrian girls, one of them an 8-month-old baby, are among up to six people who died when a boat carrying would-be migrants to Europe capsized off Libya on Thursday, rescuers said.
Five bodies were recovered and one passenger was missing, presumed drowned.
Some of the 21 survivors told aid workers there had been 27 people from eight Syrian families on the boat. The Phoenix, a rescue boat run by the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station and the Italian Red Cross, recovered the corpses of two women, one man and the baby while the 5-year-old’s body was picked up by a fishing boat, the organizations said.
Details of the tragedy emerged as the world’s attention has been re-focused on the crisis in Syria by this week’s poignant pictures of the bloodied, dust-covered face of 4-year-old Omran following the bombing of his home in the war-torn city of Aleppo.
MOAS co-founder Regina Catrambone said the latest deaths were a tragic reminder that hundreds of migrant children continue to perish at sea a year after toddler Aylan Kurdi’s body was washed ashore on a Turkish beach last year.
“It is very sad and frustrating to witness the tragic loss of life at sea, especially that of such a young child,” she said.
“It is time for the international community to come to terms with this reality and to implement safe and legal solutions for the most vulnerable among us to avail themselves of the rights and protections they are entitled to.”
Nearly 100,000 migrants have landed at Italian ports this year.
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