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20/04/15

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Originally posted by Hanrahan ↑

“It seems we are looking at the worst massacre ever seen in the Mediterranean,” UNHCR spokeswoman Carlotta Sami said.
Italian prosecutors say a survivor of the migrant boat capsizing in the Mediterranean has told them 950 people were aboard, including hundreds who were locked in the hold by smugglers.

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Why is it a massacre? Very emotive language. Never heard it in association with the Titanic, where people drowned because they were locked below deck in third.
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