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POLITICIANS across the globe called on the EU yesterday to increase its search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean after a ship taking hundreds of migrants to Italy capsized.
Emergency services mounted a major search operation north of Libya and, as rescue attempts gathered speed, sources said that an estimated 700 people had been aboard but only 28 people had been rescued so far.
United Nations refugee agency spokeswoman Barbara Molinario said that the Italian coastguard operation was continuing and that the number of victims was not known.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
