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Urgent: Up to 500 people may have lost lives in latest Mediterranean tragedy: UNHCR

Xinhua, April 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

As many as 500 people may have lost their lives when a large ship went down in the Mediterranean Sea at an unknown location between Libya and Italy, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday. Endit