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Many see harsh realities about class and ethnicity in the attention paid to the Titan submersible and the halfhearted attempts to aid a ship before it sank, killing hundreds of migrants. But there are other factors.
Contradictions in the Coast Guard’s account cast new doubts over how the Greeks handled one of the worst maritime disasters in the country’s history.
Officials say more than 100 Pakistanis were among those killed when a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized in deep Mediterranean waters. The death toll of the disaster is expected to rise.
Emergency workers rushed some survivors on stretchers to a nearby tent to receive medical aid.
The disaster appeared to be one of the deadliest such episodes off the country’s shores in years, and there were fears that the toll would rise.
The boat capsized on the Niger River at night, when many passengers were returning from a wedding party.
High waves and strong winds dashed a wooden boat against rocks on the coast of Calabria, in southern Italy, killing at least 59 migrants.
Children were among those who drowned when a wooden boat carrying more than 130 migrants collided with rocks in southern Italy.
The number of drownings nationwide last summer exceeded the 10-year average by 44 percent, while New South Wales is presently having “one of our worst summers on record.”