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TUNIS – A shipped filled with refugees vanishes from the Mediterranean Ocean with no sight of its passengers or crew.
Tunisian media reported that a boat jammed full with passengers disappeared after the ship got into trouble on the Mediterranean Ocean.
The passengers were all North-African refugees looking for a better place to live in Europe.
After hours of searching the waters, the coastguards finally found 570 people bobbing in the ocean and was able to rescue them but 200 to 270 more are still missing.
According to witness accounts, the boat was overloaded with people hanging from the sides of the ship holding on to ropes.
The Coastguards expect that the missing individuals have most likely drowned because of panic invoked pushing and shoving that happened when the boat started to sink.
More people drowned while the Coastguard tried rescuing them as refugees pushed each other under water wanting desperately to climb on board the Coastguard vessel.
Rescue efforts are hampered because of the bad weather.
Most refugees came from Libya who since the war started have tried to escape to Europe with thousands of them already settled at the Italian island Lampedusa.
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