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Why haven't the European authorities begun looking for the 13 refugees who went missing on Christmas day, families ask

THE families of refugees who went missing in the Mediterranean Sea on Christmas day are asking why European authorities have not begun looking for them.

The refugees – believed to number 13 – fled the shores of war-torn Libya from Sabratah in a fibreglass boat in the evening on December 24, a relative of one of the missing told the distress hotline activist network Alarm Phone on Boxing Day.

“Unfortunately the boat didn’t have a satellite phone,” an Alarm Phone activist told the Star today.

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