this feed documents incidents where immigrants have died while trying to enter Europe. the list is by no means complete as it only contains incidents that have been reported in the media. most of the deaths at the border never make it into the papers. also it only counts confirmed deaths while in incidents at sea (which make up the majority of the cases) there are often substantial amounts of people who are missing or unaccounted for. it is safe to assume that most of them have also died. http://www.noborder.org/dead.php feel free to resuse this content for any purpose 47 migrants have died of starvation and cold after the engine of the boat transporting them from Libya to Italy broke down. 16 other migrants, who survived the tragedy, dumped the 47 bodies in the mediterranean sea before the wind pushed the damaged boat towards the tunisian coast. Three corpses, believed to be those of the dead migrants, washed up on the tunesian coast. http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23689609-5005361,00.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT The Armed Forces of Malta have recovered three corpses from the waters off the southern shores of Malta. The corpses which appeared to have been North African immigrants are believed to be related to two accidents at sea, in which boats full of african migrans trying to reach European shores capsized in the Mediterranean sea between Tunisia and Malta http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msrv/msfullart.asp?an=20964 Fri, 09 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT one migrant was killed and another five injured near Xanthi in north eastern greece when the car in which they were being transported crashed after being chased for some 10 kilometers by police. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100020_07/05/2008_96266 Wed, 07 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT a 32 year old refugee from Camerun, committed suicide in the Belgian migrants detention centre of Merksplas. He was kept in an isolation cell after a first attempt of repatriation failed because of the protests of some passengers of the flight http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/belgique/suicide-au-centre-ferme-de-2008-05-01-595575.shtml Fri, 02 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT 36 migrants from Cameroon, Liberia and NIgeria including 2 women en 4 children have died after the inflatable dinghy they were traveling in drowned off the moroccan coast 150 kilometres to the west of Melilla http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/36/muertos/patera/Marruecos/elpepiesp/20080505elpepinac_9/Tes Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT Tunisian coastguards have recovered the corpses of three migrants who were among a group of more than 20 people who went missing when the small boat carrying them to Europe capsized. The migrants set out from the eastern town of Chabba late last week for the Italian island of Lampedusa. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/25/2227134.htm Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT the bodies of two stowaways have been found on board a British-flagged container ship en route from Ivory Coast to the northern Spanish port of Vigo. A total of 13 stowaways had been on board the MS Rosa Delmas and where removed by spanish police in Rosario port of the Spanish Canary Island of Fuerteventura. Four of the survivors were hospitalized. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/200276,two-african-stowaways-found-dead-on-ship-in-canary-islands.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT The Algerian maritime rescue squad has picked up 13 dead bodies floating in the sea two miles north east of Cap Carbon beach in the province of Oran. A fisher had discovered 5 bodies floating in the sea and 8 others where found during a search and rescue operation. http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/lire.php?idc=126&ida=104832 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT the bodies of six drowned migrants were recovered by the Turkish Coast Guard in the Mediterranean sea after their boat capsized off the Turkish coast close to Didim town of western province of Aydin. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/23/content_7843221.htm Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:00:00 GMT A boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of the southern turkish province of Hatay. The turkish coast guard pulled the bodies of four dead migrants from the sea, and another three migrants where rescued after a boat capsized off the coast of the southern province of Hatay. http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=220415 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:00:00 GMT A cayuco boat with 59 migrants and two dead bodies on board arrived in the port of Los Cristianos on Tenerife. http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15416.shtml Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:00:00 GMT The body of a drowned 25 year old algerian who had attempted to cross the sea to spain was recovered from the sea near Béthioua, close to Oran http://www.lequotidien-oran.com/index.php?news=5100130 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:00:00 GMT A 28 year old migrant died in Ceuta when he was crushed by the wheels of a tour bus under which he was hiding in an attempt to clandestinely cross the Strait of Gibraltar into the Spanish mainland http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/inmigrante/muere/caer/bus/fugaba/elpepiesp/20080206elpepinac_21/Tes Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:00:00 GMT the bodies of two drowned migrants were discovered on beaches in the Costa de la Luz this weekend, both of them male and both believed to Moroccan. http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_14918.shtml Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:00:00 GMT the decomposing body of a man was found on board a passenger ferry sailing from Venice to Igoumenitsa. The ship serves the Patras-Igoumenitsa-Venice route and it is thought the deceased man was an illegal immigrant who had stowed away on board of the ship in order to get from Greece to Italy http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=92737 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT the body of a 30 year old male was found whashed ashore on a beach in the Algerina costal region of Skikda. It is belived that he belonged to a group of migrants that undertook a failed attempt to reach Europe by boat. http://www.lequotidien-oran.com/index.php?news=5097927 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT at least two people have died when an immigrant boat capsized off the spanish coast of Conil de la Frontera. 17 passengers were rescued alive, but the search continues for additional bodies. http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_14730.shtml Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT a 14 year old afghan migrant died after falling from a truck under which he had hidden for the passage from Greece to Italy. His body was found on a street near the the Italian port city of Ancona. http://www.romagnaoggi.it/showarticle.php?articleID=288620&posizione=24_ore_romagna&storico=tutti Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT at least three people have been found dead and another two are reported to be in a very serious condition after a cayuco boat carrying 85 passengers was spotted by a coastguard vessel and escorted into the port of Los Cristianos on Tenerife. http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_14564.shtml Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT A dinghy crossed courses with. One migrant drowned after diving into he water from a dinghy to reach an Italian fishing boat, 50 miles south off Lampedusa. http://www.repubblica.it/2007/11/sezioni/cronaca/immigrati-3/omicidio-peschereccio/omicidio-peschereccio.html Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT the bodies of seven migrants have been discovered off the coast of Barbate in recent days. it is belived that they have been passengers on an immigrant boat discovered in the area on New Years Eve. http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_14478.shtml Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT One person drowned and several are missing when two boats collided and capsized on the Meric/Evros river seperating Turkey from Greece. Seven people managed to swim to the Turkish side only to be detained by paramilitary police while those who swam to the Greek side of the river went missing. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/28/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Illegal-Migrants.php Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT The body of drowned 25 year old Moroccan migrant was found floating in the port of Spanish exclave Ceuta http://www.abc.es/20071228/nacional-sucesos/fallece-ceuta-inimigrante-marroqui_200712280302.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT the Greek coast guard was searching the sea off Lesvos after a fisherman found the body of a migrant and rescued another immigrant off the Aegean island. the survivor said he had been on a boat with another 31 people. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100020_24/12/2007_91465 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT the body of the remaining unaccounted passenger of the vessel that sunk off bodrum was recovered by turkish the coast guard http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=91322 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT