All posts tagged "migrants"

  • A long queue of vehicles waits on the M1 motorway near the border between Hungary and Austria near Mosonmagyarovar, 158 km northwest from Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. The line has reached 20 kilometers as every vehicle capable of smuggling people is checked at the border after 71 migrants were found dead in a truck Thursday. (Csaba Krizsan/MTI via AP)
    Austria inspects trucks for migrants, creates 18-mile backup

    BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Austria stepped up vehicle inspections Monday at its Hungarian border after 71 migrants apparently suffocated in a truck, creating a huge traffic jam on the main Budapest-Vienna highway. In addition to the gridlock...

    • Posted August 31, 2015
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  • A migrant is helped disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
    Estimated 900 migrants drown trying to reach Italy

    ROME (AP) — Reports say migrant ship with some 900 overturns north of Libya, coast guard rescue under way. About 100 on Sunday. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel...

    • Posted April 20, 2015
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