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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Rachel Hagan

Syrian refugee recounts being stranded in Greek sea as coastguards watch and do nothing

A Syrian refugee has described the horror of being stuck on a sinking ship in the Greek sea while the coastguard watched people drowning.

On June 9, an old steel fishing trawler left eastern Libya for Italy, carrying as many as 750 men, women and children from Syria, Egypt, Palestine and Pakistan.

All of them were fleeing war or persecution and hoped to reach their family in Europe, but the ship sank off the coast of Greece.

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