According to trust.org, Turkish embassy staff carry their wounded colleague on a stretcher after a suicide car bomb attack at the gates of an office housing Turkish embassy staff in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu July 27, 2013. A car loaded with explosives rammed into the gates of an office housing Turkish embassy staff in the Somali capital, killing two people, witnesses and police said on Saturday. Read article
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Thehindu.com reports that three people have drowned and about 40 others were still missing after a fishing boat carrying mostly asylum-seekers to Australia sank off Indonesia’s Java Island, police said on Wednesday. At least 160 people from Bangladesh, Iran and Sri Lanka were rescued after the accident on Tuesday, said West Java police chief Inspector-General […]
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According to kyivpost.com, a boat with Ukrainian sailors capsized in Azov Sea on Wednesday evening, when chased by Russian border guards, a source from law enforcement agencies said. Read article
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The Guardian reports that four people have drowned after another asylum seeker boat sank in rough seas off Christmas Island on Tuesday. Navy search and rescue services pulled 144 people from the water and recovered the bodies of four others. The vessel was being escorted to Christmas Island by Navy boats HMAS Albany and HMAS […]
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Ceylontoday.lk reports that three workers were killed and 16 injured after the bus they were travelling in crashed in Fujairah, UAE. The incident occurred at around 8am on Saturday on Al Qariyah Road 10km from Fujairah City. Fujairah Police identified the dead as two Bangladeshi men and a Sri Lankan man. Read article
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According to scmp.com, Two Hong Kong residents died on Wednesday in an industrial accident in Guangzhou, while another is still in hospital with serious injuries. The accident took place at a construction site in the town of Zhujiang, in central Guangzhou’s Tianhe district on Wednesday afternoon, the government said in a statement on Thursday. Read […]
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According to dailymail.co.uk, the Brit believed to have gunned down his wife and disabled daughter before turning the gun on himself left a written confession apologising for his crimes, it was reported today. Police found the note by the murder weapon beside his body in the family’s rented Costa del Sol villa, respected local newspaper […]
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Punchng.com reports that ten people drowned and another 20 could not be unaccounted for after a boat carrying migrants from Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso sank off the coast of Gabon, a police official said on Friday. The boat had left Nigeria and was within 15 minutes of arriving in Gabon’s capital Libreville when it […]
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According to adnkronos.com, At least ten migrants drowned in the southern Mediterranean late on Sunday when their boat got into difficulty and a Tunisian fishing boat allegedly refused to rescue them. Survivors described how they jumped into the sea and tried to cling onto a tuna fishing cage when their eight-metre motorized dinghy broke down […]
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Canberratimes.com reports that nine asylum seekers have died after their boat capsized north-west of Christmas Island, prompted renewed criticism of Australia’s response to boats in distress. A Customs and Border Protection surveillance aircraft sighted the people in the water. Read article
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