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Feb 26 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#BREAKING At least 27 migrants dead after boat wreck off Italy: media
#BREAKING Around 40 migrants drown after boat wrecked off southern Italy: media
#UPDATE More than 40 migrants, including a baby just a few months old, died after their overloaded boat sank early on Sunday in stormy seas off Italy's southern Calabria region, rescue services said ▶️ u.afp.com/ieXa
#BREAKING 59 migrants dead in southern Italy boat wreck: mayor
#UPDATE At least 59 migrants, including a baby just a few months old, died after their overloaded boat sank early on Sunday in stormy seas off Italy's southern Calabria region, officials said ▶️ u.afp.com/ieBD #Crotone

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