Italian coastguard makes gruesome discovery

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Italian coastguard makes gruesome discovery

ROME - About 30 bodies have been found in a migrant boat which was stopped between Sicily and the North African coast, Italian news agencies reported Monday, citing the navy and coastguard.

The rescuers made the gruesome discovery when they boarded a fishing boat carrying around 590 refugees and migrants to evacuate those in most distress, including two pregnant women.

The immigrants apparently died of asphyxiation, the news agencies said. It is not the first time Italian rescuers have found migrants dead on the overcrowded boats but never before were there such a large number.

The boat is being towed by the Italian navy and is expected to arrive later Monday in Pozzallo on the southeast coast of Sicily.

Full story: http://www.enca.com/italian-coastguards-find-30-bodies-migrant-boat

-- eNCA 2014-06-30

[crezycasy]

I feel ashamed of being human.

[wantan]

These tragedies will not stop as long as the world relies on more and more consumption to keep going.

RIP. I cannot imagine how desperate most of these people must have been.

[Credo]

A sad story, but kudos to the Italian Coast Guard for towing them to shore. Some countries have been known to tow them the other direction.

[thaibeachlovers]

A sad story, but kudos to the Italian Coast Guard for towing them to shore. Some countries have been known to tow them the other direction.

Obviously referring to Oz. However, the Oz policy has reduced the number of people willing to risk their lives to zero in the past 6 months.

BTW, how many economic migrants are you willing to pay for, all 17 million and rising?

[thaibeachlovers]

These tragedies will not stop as long as the world relies on more and more consumption to keep going.

RIP. I cannot imagine how desperate most of these people must have been.

A direct result of those countries being unwilling to limit their overpopulation. It's long past time to limit reproduction by whatever means necessary to do the job. If governments won't, Gaia will and it won't be pleasant.

[lostsoul49]

These tragedies will not stop as long as the world relies on more and more consumption to keep going.

RIP. I cannot imagine how desperate most of these people must have been.

A direct result of those countries being unwilling to limit their overpopulation. It's long past time to limit reproduction by whatever means necessary to do the job. If governments won't, Gaia will and it won't be pleasant.

I agree.

[Credo]

A sad story, but kudos to the Italian Coast Guard for towing them to shore. Some countries have been known to tow them the other direction.

Obviously referring to Oz. However, the Oz policy has reduced the number of people willing to risk their lives to zero in the past 6 months.

BTW, how many economic migrants are you willing to pay for, all 17 million and rising?

You could not be more wrong.

[Oziex1]

A sad story, but kudos to the Italian Coast Guard for towing them to shore. Some countries have been known to tow them the other direction.

Obviously referring to Oz. However, the Oz policy has reduced the number of people willing to risk their lives to zero in the past 6 months.

BTW, how many economic migrants are you willing to pay for, all 17 million and rising?

Not so, they are still coming to Oz we just divert them elsewhere to Indonesia. Australia was built on migration, as are many of the great nations of the world.

[belg]

they should escort the boat back to africa & sink it

all freeloaders, too mutt of those already killing social welfare for the working

[capcc76]

These tragedies will not stop as long as the world relies on more and more consumption to keep going.

RIP. I cannot imagine how desperate most of these people must have been.

Why not place blame where blame is due. Some of these countries and people in them need to step and take responsibility for themselves. They have been a mess for generations and their mess has nothing to do with other countries "consumption" of anything. Blaming the world or other countries' for their problems is ridiculous and serves to perpetuate the problem or bring the problem to other countries where people and their governments actually do take responsibility for themselves and/or their people.

The world has changed. Immigrants used to add to an economy by providing unskilled services such as labor to benefit themselves and their new country. This is no longer the case and immigrants without any education, professional skills and financial resources are destructive to the proposed new host countries. The Oz or US was built on immigration stuff is not applicable to the current illegal migration nightmare.

[mok199]

i say,give them a cheese sandwich,and load them up and return them to africa...

[ClutchClark]

A sad story, but kudos to the Italian Coast Guard for towing them to shore. Some countries have been known to tow them the other direction.

I would have towed them the other direction.

I feel terrible for this tragedy; however, it is not Italy's tragedy. This action only reinforces the practice by all the others considering to make the journey, which means more and more stories like this in the future. Conversely, returning them to their own shore makes those wanting to make the trip reconsider--is it worth paying huge sums only to risk death or imminent return to their own shore? Incentive vs Dis-incentive.

But then I do not donate to the mothers with children begging along Sukhumvit, either, even though its quite hard not to. Although I do contribute to the various beggars that are missing limbs.

[dieter1]

amputating healthy limps of beggars

and

some are just faking missing limps

the world of beggars is unlimited cruel

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5231022.stm

http://southasia.oneworld.net/archive/Article/depraved-doctors-amputating-the-healthy-limps-for-lust-of-few-thousands

[thaibeachlovers]

A sad story, but kudos to the Italian Coast Guard for towing them to shore. Some countries have been known to tow them the other direction.

Obviously referring to Oz. However, the Oz policy has reduced the number of people willing to risk their lives to zero in the past 6 months.

BTW, how many economic migrants are you willing to pay for, all 17 million and rising?

You could not be more wrong.

So, how many of the 17 million economic migrants out there are you willing to support?

[thaibeachlovers]

A sad story, but kudos to the Italian Coast Guard for towing them to shore. Some countries have been known to tow them the other direction.

Obviously referring to Oz. However, the Oz policy has reduced the number of people willing to risk their lives to zero in the past 6 months.

BTW, how many economic migrants are you willing to pay for, all 17 million and rising?

Not so, they are still coming to Oz we just divert them elsewhere to Indonesia. Australia was built on migration, as are many of the great nations of the world.

So, how many of the 17 million economic migrants out there are you willing to support?

[hanno]

they should escort the boat back to africa & sink it

all freeloaders, too mutt of those already killing social welfare for the working

i say,give them a cheese sandwich,and load them up and return them to africa...

Good to see that racism is alive and kicking. Would be interesting to know what exactly some TV members contribute to society...

[thaibeachlovers]

they should escort the boat back to africa & sink it

all freeloaders, too mutt of those already killing social welfare for the working

i say,give them a cheese sandwich,and load them up and return them to africa...

Good to see that racism is alive and kicking. Would be interesting to know what exactly some TV members contribute to society...

Where's the racism? They were talking about refusing entry to ILLEGAL ECONOMIC MIGRANTS, not any particular race.

[hanno]

they should escort the boat back to africa & sink it

all freeloaders, too mutt of those already killing social welfare for the working

i say,give them a cheese sandwich,and load them up and return them to africa...

Good to see that racism is alive and kicking. Would be interesting to know what exactly some TV members contribute to society...

Where's the racism? They were talking about refusing entry to ILLEGAL ECONOMIC MIGRANTS, not any particular race.

Hmm, let me think of countries that were populated by 'ILLEGAL ECONOMIC MIGRANTS' (why all the capital letters, I am not deaf) that in the process replaced the local populations. USA? Australia? South America? New Zealand?

[mok199]

they should escort the boat back to africa & sink it

all freeloaders, too mutt of those already killing social welfare for the working

i say,give them a cheese sandwich,and load them up and return them to africa...

Good to see that racism is alive and kicking. Would be interesting to know what exactly some TV members contribute to soc

dude have you seen the ''ebola''stats coming out of africa...

[Scott]

Please stay on the topic.

[copa8]

These tragedies will not stop as long as the world relies on more and more consumption to keep going.

RIP. I cannot imagine how desperate most of these people must have been.

A direct result of those countries being unwilling to limit their overpopulation. It's long past time to limit reproduction by whatever means necessary to do the job. If governments won't, Gaia will and it won't be pleasant.

But seems like majority of people criticize China for it's 1 child policy, which has helped immensely in alleviating overpopulation.

Now if only countries like India, Nigeria, etc would limit their population growth...

[Credo]

These tragedies will not stop as long as the world relies on more and more consumption to keep going.

RIP. I cannot imagine how desperate most of these people must have been.

A direct result of those countries being unwilling to limit their overpopulation. It's long past time to limit reproduction by whatever means necessary to do the job. If governments won't, Gaia will and it won't be pleasant.

But seems like majority of people criticize China for it's 1 child policy, which has helped immensely in alleviating overpopulation.

Now if only countries like India, Nigeria, etc would limit their population growth...

I don't think too many people minded the one child policy, it was how it was implemented with forced abortion, sterilization etc., which was the problem. Also, the demographics of China are now presenting some challenges. Not very many young people to take care of a lot of old people.

Perhaps they will come up with a maximum age policy. Again, the implementation will be what people are opposed to.

[thaibeachlovers]

These tragedies will not stop as long as the world relies on more and more consumption to keep going.

RIP. I cannot imagine how desperate most of these people must have been.

A direct result of those countries being unwilling to limit their overpopulation. It's long past time to limit reproduction by whatever means necessary to do the job. If governments won't, Gaia will and it won't be pleasant.

But seems like majority of people criticize China for it's 1 child policy, which has helped immensely in alleviating overpopulation.

Now if only countries like India, Nigeria, etc would limit their population growth...

It didn't prevent overpoulation, just slowed the rate.

In India, the use of scanning machines and female abortion/ infanticide has skewd the population towards males, which may reduce the population through lack of women for breeding.

[Yahooka]

I wish that the news in my country would use the correct description as in the OP,migrants instead of refugees...........Most of the people doing this Mediteranean crossings are migrants from mainly West- and North African countries in search of work.

[thaibeachlovers]

I wish that the news in my country would use the correct description as in the OP,migrants instead of refugees...........Most of the people doing this Mediteranean crossings are migrants from mainly West- and North African countries in search of work.

The fix is in with the media. They won't do anything to turn the population against accepting large numbers of aliens, regardless.