All the animals fed and happy I sat down with Malc and a cuppa to check the news. In a site France and beyond on facebook I was sent to the Guardian to read the report below. Refugees are still dying in their franctic escape to live... only to be drowned in the seas around the Aegean islands.
The crisis unfolding on Europe’s southern periphery deepened on Sunday as the Greek coastguard announced that another 11 refugees, most of them infants, had died in their desperate attempt to reach the west – their deaths adding to the ever growing toll at sea.
Pitiful images of rescue workers recovering babies from the cabin of a six-metre boat were played out off the Aegean island of Samos after a vessel capsized in stormy weather as it made the perilous crossing from Turkey. “We recovered 11 drowned bodies, 10 of which were trapped inside the boat’s cabin,” one coastguard official was quoted as saying. Four babies, two children and four women were among the dead.
What a way to greet the morning, and to learn another 50 dead in the seas in the last month. The photo with the report is just too harrowing to copy.
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