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‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived

By Sally Hayden & Kebba Ansu Manneh · The Irish Times · August 2026

‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived

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"A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’"

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