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Article: 21 Eritrean, Somali refugees feared dead in Sudan river crossing.
- Article from:
- Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2008
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September 24, 2008 (KHARTOUM) -- The United Nations refugee agency said twenty-one refugees are feared dead after their overloaded boat capsized during a smuggling incident in eastern Sudan. Among the missing were 11 Eritrean and Somali families, including eight women at least three children, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Wednesday. The refugees were part of a larger group that tried at 01:30 local time to cross the Atbara River -- which is near the Shagarab refugee camp in eastern Sudan -- in four boats. One of the four boats, which are meant to carry a maximum of 15 people, was packed with 26 and capsized several hundred kilometers from ...