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In the deadliest shipwreck recorded in 2020, at least 140 migrants have drowned off the coast of Senegal. The UN's International Organization for Migration says the boat was bound for Spain's Canary Islands. It was carrying about 200 people. CNN reports the vessel caught fire a few hours after departing Mbour. It eventually capsized near Saint-Louis, on the Senegalese northwest coast. The IOM is deeply saddened by this recent tragedy, which follows four shipwrecks recorded in the Central Mediterranean last week and another in the English Channel. Statement, United Nations International Organization for Migration CNN reports the Senegalese government and the IOM will travel to Saint-Louis to assess the needs of survivors and provide immediate assistance.
Police and forensic teams investigate the site of a fire that tore through a housing settlement in southern Chile which left 14 Venezuelan migrants dead, including eight children. IMAGES
Hundreds of migrants attempt to cross Mexico's border with the United States in Ciudad Juarez after 38 people died in a fire at a Mexican detention center in the city. IMAGES
NGO workers and migrants lay flowers for the at least 39 people who died at a Mexican immigration detention centre in Ciudad Juarez near the US border. Migrants are believed to have lit the fire as a demonstration because they feared they would be deported, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. IMAGES
Several people at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border died in a fire that broke out at the facility overnight, according to media reports. IMAGES
Tripoli, Oct 9 (EFE/EPA).- African migrants on Saturday took part in a sit-in portest outside the UNHRC office in Tripoli to demand that the internatinal community take them out of Libya.According to the hundreds of the migrants taking part in the sit-in, some of them started the demonstration a few days earlier.Another group joined on Friday after fleeing the detention center, where a gunfire incident killed at least 6 people. (Camera: STR). SHOT LIST: AFRICAN MIGRANTS TAKE PART IN A SIT-IN PORTEST TO DEMAND THAT THE INTERNATINAL COMMUNITY TAKES THEM OUT OF LIBYA, OUTSIDE THE UNHRC OFFICE IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA.
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