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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
ANTANANARIVO, March 20 (Xinhua) — Eighteen illegal migrants drowned in an incident on Wednesday off the coast of Mitsamiouli region in the northern part of Grande Comore island in Comoros, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
The victims included 15 citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and three citizens of Burundi.
A ship carrying 48 illegal migrants was abandoned at sea by smugglers off the coast of the Comoros Islands, the Foreign Ministry said.
Local media reported that the migrants were attempting to reach Mayotte, a French overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, but were misled by smugglers into believing they had already arrived when in fact they were still in Comoros waters. –0–
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