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Civil refugee rescue fleet searches for survivors of migrant shipwreck
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The crew on board the Ocean Viking search for survivors near Lampedusa [MSF]

THE civil refugee rescue fleet was searching for survivors in the Mediterranean today after a wooden boat carrying approximately 70 people sank near Lampedusa on Sunday night. 

The UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) reported in the morning that 40 people had been rescued but about 30 more were unaccounted for. 

Later in the afternoon International Organisation for Migration (IOM) spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo wrote on Twitter that “13 corpses (all women coming from Western Africa) have been recovered.”

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