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this feed documents incidents where immigrants have died while trying to enter Europe. the list is by no means complete as it only contains incidents that have been reported in the media. most of the deaths at the border never make it into the papers. also it only counts confirmed deaths while in incidents at sea (which make up the majority of the cases) there are often substantial amounts of people who are missing or unaccounted for. it is safe to assume that most of them have also died.
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47 migrants have died of starvat...

Mon, 05/12/2008 - 2:00pm
47 migrants have died of starvation and cold after the engine of the boat transporting them from Libya to Italy broke down. 16 other migrants, who survived the tragedy, dumped the 47 bodies in the mediterranean sea before the wind pushed the damaged boat towards the tunisian coast. Three corpses, believed to be those of the dead migrants, washed up on the tunesian coast.

The Armed Forces of Malta have r...

Fri, 05/09/2008 - 2:00pm
The Armed Forces of Malta have recovered three corpses from the waters off the southern shores of Malta. The corpses which appeared to have been North African immigrants are believed to be related to two accidents at sea, in which boats full of african migrans trying to reach European shores capsized in the Mediterranean sea between Tunisia and Malta

one migrant was killed and anoth...

Wed, 05/07/2008 - 2:00pm
one migrant was killed and another five injured near Xanthi in north eastern greece when the car in which they were being transported crashed after being chased for some 10 kilometers by police.

a 32 year old refugee from Camer...

Fri, 05/02/2008 - 2:00pm
a 32 year old refugee from Camerun, committed suicide in the Belgian migrants detention centre of Merksplas. He was kept in an isolation cell after a first attempt of repatriation failed because of the protests of some passengers of the flight

36 migrants from Cameroon, Liber...

Mon, 04/28/2008 - 2:00pm
36 migrants from Cameroon, Liberia and NIgeria including 2 women en 4 children have died after the inflatable dinghy they were traveling in drowned off the moroccan coast 150 kilometres to the west of Melilla

Tunisian coastguards have recove...

Fri, 04/25/2008 - 2:00pm
Tunisian coastguards have recovered the corpses of three migrants who were among a group of more than 20 people who went missing when the small boat carrying them to Europe capsized. The migrants set out from the eastern town of Chabba late last week for the Italian island of Lampedusa.

the bodies of two stowaways have...

Mon, 04/21/2008 - 2:00pm
the bodies of two stowaways have been found on board a British-flagged container ship en route from Ivory Coast to the northern Spanish port of Vigo. A total of 13 stowaways had been on board the MS Rosa Delmas and where removed by spanish police in Rosario port of the Spanish Canary Island of Fuerteventura. Four of the survivors were hospitalized.