Dozens of migrants feared drowned in latest Mediterranean tragedy



ROME: -- Up to 30 people are feared drowned in the second migrant tragedy in as many days in the Mediterranean.

Amid warm weather and calm seas, more people are attempting the perilous journey in rickety boats from Libya to Italy. More than 7,000 have been rescued this week alone.

In the latest disaster on Thursday, more than 80 migrants were pulled to safety after their vessel overturned. Between 20-30 more, though, are reported to have perished.

On Wednesday, a large fishing boat also capsized off the Libyan coast. Over 500 people were saved but at least five migrants lost their lives.

Europe’s deal with Turkey stemmed the migrant flow across the Aegean Sea to Greece.

But last month a senior EU official said ‘alarming’ numbers of migrants were reaching Libya, ready to cross the Mediterranean.

“The numbers of would-be migrants in Libya are alarming,” European Council President Donald Tusk told the European Parliament a day after Austria said it planned tighter controls on its Italian border in anticipation of a summer migrant surge.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-05-27

Why not patrol the Libyan edge of international waters. State of the art radar systems must be able to locate each vessel all the way across the coast of North Africa. Turn them back.

Now the utterly failing Eu is waiting at the coasts of Greece and Italy to rescue the vessels and the PC crowd cheers for the poor souls saved.

In the mean time trying to make us feel guilty.

I know the will is not there, too many PC around.

Why not patrol the Libyan edge of international waters. State of the art radar systems must be able to locate each vessel all the way across the coast of North Africa. Turn them back.

Now the utterly failing Eu is waiting at the coasts of Greece and Italy to rescue the vessels and the PC crowd cheers for the poor souls saved.

In the mean time trying to make us feel guilty.

I know the will is not there, too many PC around.

Many rescue ships actually do patrol the Libyan edge of international waters, but instead of turning the boats back, they are bringing the migrants to Europe.

They should take images like these, make them into leaflets and drop them into the areas where these boat people come from.

" Hey look what your money will buy you".

They should take images like these, make them into leaflets and drop them into the areas where these boat people come from.

" Hey look what your money will buy you".

What a bl**dy good idea!

the smugglers will tell them that they were sunk by evil forces.