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Thu 08 Aug 200870 migrants feared drowned off Malta
Some 70 African migrants are feared drowned in the central Mediterranean after a large rubber dinghy taking them to Europe capsized, the Malta representative of the UN refugee agency said yesterday.
A Maltese fishing boat rescued eight migrants 55 miles south of Malta yesterday and the crew were told the group had originally numbered 78, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative Neil Falzon said.
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