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Boat Carrying Migrants to Italy Sinks in Mediterranean

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Four out of five people on board were saved, and one is missing.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A boat carrying five Palestinian migrants sank on its way from Libya to Italy, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation reported Monday.

The migrants were originally from the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain El-Hilweh, according to the media outlet.

On March 4, Italian officials announced that over two days more than 1,000 migrants had been rescued from drowning in the Mediterranean north of Libya after trying to reach Europe, ten of them died.

At least 207,000 refugees crossed the Mediterranean to find asylum in Europe in 2014, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees. More than 3,500 of them drowned in the process. Syrians and Eritreans make up almost 50 percent of the migrants.

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