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‘Third child’ dies on migrant ship stranded in Mediterranean Sea

The migrants have been communicating with relatives and activist groups through a satellite phone, and have urged European coastguards to rescue them [File: Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]

Activists and relatives of Lebanese and Syrian migrants and refugees stranded on board a sinking boat near the island of Malta have said that a third child has died on the vessel, and that they have lost contact with it.

The international activist network Alarm Phone said on Tuesday that the last contact with the roughly 60 Lebanese and Syrians had been overnight.

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