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Searing Sorrows: The Torch of Lampedusa’s Agony

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People are spotted clinging to the top of a capsized boat, while others are struggling in the water. It is feared hundreds of migrants have drowned after the vessel toppled, sparking a huge rescue operation

The Torch of Lampedusa

The 900 who heard them?
Apparently they lay screaming.
As I read this online story,
Of last gasp waving & drowning.

Poor migrants, lured to a better life,
Now they’re dead.
It must have been too hot for them
In Syria, Gambia etc they said.

Oh no, the summers are too hot always,
& now the stranded ones lay screaming.
As I read this online story
Of last gasp waving & drowning.

Read More: Lampedusa: 900 feared dead as migrant boat sinks off Libya

This is the third major shipwreck involving migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean this week, and a further 400 migrants are feared to have drowned in the other incidents

This is the third major shipwreck involving migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean this week, and a further 400 migrants are feared to have drowned in the other incidents

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