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Two boats have capsized off Tunisia, leaving at least 39 people dead. The shipwrecks happened amid an ongoing rise of the number of migrants risking the Mediterranean crossing to Europe.
Mediterranean: Dozens dead after two migrant boats capsize off Tunisia
At least 39 migrants are dead as numbers attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean continue to rise
A member of the Tunisian coastguard during a patrol of the area near Tunisia s northern town of Bizerte on 30 March 2017 (AFP) By Published date: 10 March 2021 12:05 UTC | Last update: 1 month ago
At least 39 migrants have died after two boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tunisia, the defence ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Rescuers pulled 165 survivors from the floundering boats out of the sea to safety, though defence ministry spokesman Mohamed Zekri said later that the search had been temporarily suspended due to nightfall and bad weather .
Record cocaine hauls in Europe as big party predicted post Covid vaccinations Dramatic increase in purity of cocaine on the streets in the last ten years, analyst says Covid-19 had “very little impact” on cocaine supply and may have “even helped”, one expert has said.
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Cormac O’Keeffe
Seizures of cocaine in Europe have continued to break records over the last two years, according to updates from the EU drugs agency.
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction said this was true for both the volume of cocaine seized and the number of seizures, with Covid-19 restrictions appearing not to have any impact.
Mark Shaw
It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its consequences devastating. Thousands of people, including women and children, died between 2011 and 2019 as a result of one senior police officer’s crime: his decision to sell millions of rands’ worth of guns to fund his children’s university fees. Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo, the former head of the Gauteng firearm license division, and a network of his cronies sold thousands of guns that had been decommissioned by the SAPS to South Africa’s gang lords. The sale of those lethal weapons, which the police service tried to cover up, led to a killing spree of unprecedented proportions.