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 eighteen African would-be immigrants have drowned after their boat capsized off the Spanish coast near Tarifa. 22 passengers of the boat, which was traveling from Tangier in Morocco to Tarifa have been rescued by the Spanish coast guard. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1481382.php/18_African_migrants_feared_drowned_off_Spain__Roundup__ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT the decomposing body of a sub-saharan migrant was recovered by spanisch authorities after it was sighted by a Liberian merchant ship about 42 miles south off Cabo de Gata, in Andalusia, Spain http://www.laverdad.es/murcia/20090604/espana/encuentran-cadaver-subsahariano-aguas-20090604.html Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT one passenger of a boat carrying 40 migrants that was intercepted 14 miles from the port of Tarifa by the spanish coast guard died in the hospital http://www.elmundo.es/papel/2009/05/01/espana/2638476.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT the Spanish maritime rescue service recvered the bodies of two sub-Saharan migrants floating in the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar. it is belived that both migrants died of hypothermia. http://www.diariodenavarra.es/20090424/nacional/encontrados-estrecho-cuerpos-dos-inmigrantes.html?not=2009042402575945&idnot=2009042402575945&dia=20090424&seccion=nacional&seccion2=sucesos&chnl=30 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT A turkish cargo ship rescued 140 migrants from two boats that had trouble at sea between Malta and Lampedusa. The crew of the Pinar also recovered the body of a woman, who appeared to be about 20 years old, in one of the boats. The body has been wrapped and put in a dinghy attached to the Pinar as Malta and Italy continued to squabble for a third consecutive day over the fate of the stranded migrants. http://www.euronews24.org/europe/italy-gives-stranded-migrants-water/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT the body of a dead migrant has been found alongside the train track in the eurotunnel under the English Channel. It is assumed that he fell from a train on which he was trying to get into england http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=306749 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT two would-be migrants were found dead aboard one of two packed boats intercepted by the Italian navy. The navy intercepted the boats south of the Italian coast and transferred their 136 passengers to the southern Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3175318392 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT at least 200 migrants drowned after their boat sunk in bad weather three hours after it left Janzour, 15 km west of Tripoli. only 20 of the 257 people on board the ship survived the accident. According to the Libyan authorities 100 bodies of the migrants washed up on the beaches west of Tripoli. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5302EA20090401 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT an Iraqi migrant died in the port of Ancona when he was crushed by the truck he was hiding under inside a Greek ferry coming from Patras. http://www.corriereadriatico.it/articolo.aspx?varget=C6D7C83123BAF5598766164BAC3D7082 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT a migrant was found dead in the port of Venice, hidden inside a truck that arrived from Greece on a ferry. http://www.gazzettino.it/articolo.php?id=52225&sez=NORDEST Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT Two migrants were reported to be missing and are presumed dead after they fell in the sea when the Spanish coast guard transfered the 11 passengers of a boat intercepted neer Cabo de Gata, Almeria onto a coast guard vessel. http://www.publico.es/agencias/efe/211773/buscan/ocupantes/patera/desaparecidos/caer/mar/rescate Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT 17 people have drowned and 50 are missing after a rubber boat carrying them from Libya to Italy sank in the vicinity of the Tunesian island of Kerkennah. 33 passengers were saved by the Tunesian Navy after receiving distress calls from some of the passengers. http://www.lasiciliaweb.it/index.php?id=18895&template=lasiciliaweb Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT The body of a drowned migrant was found washed ashore on a beach in La Linea de la Concepcion near Cadiz in Spain http://www.diariosur.es/20090318/andalucia/localizado-cadaver-inmigrante-playa-20090318.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT One migrant was deadly injured in an attempt to overcome the border fence separating the Spanish enclave Ceuta from Morocco. The 25 year old bled to death after he was stuck in the the barbed wire of the border fence. http://www.abc.es/20090307/nacional-sucesos/muere-desangrado-subsahariano-quedar-20090307.html Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT One african migrant died when a flimsy vessel carrying 35 migrants tried to land on the southern spainish coast near Montril. The boat was taken to the port of Montril wher some of those rescued had to be treated for hypothermia after being at sea for two days. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LL591212.htm Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT According to the Spanish marine Rescue Service the body of another migrant has been retrieved from waters off Lanzarote, bringing to 22 the number drowned when a boat capsized 20 metres off a beach near the town of Teguise on the 16th of February. http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jsiLuouU1mkIrNN39SBvMX4CYtTA Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT at least 21 North African migrants, drowned in sight of bathers as their overcrowded boat capsized 20 metres off a beach near the town of Teguise on Lanzarote. Swimmers and surfers tried to reach the migrants as they struggled in rough waters before Coast Guard boats arrived. Six people were rescued and 18 bodies have been recovered while three more had been sighted in the water. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LG691241.htm Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT the Spanish maritime rescue has found the bodies of three men in a packed migrant boat off the Canary Islands. 74 other migrants were rescued from the open, wooden fishing boat that was spotted by a Spanish air force plane 110 kilometers south of the Canaries and brought to a port on Gran Canaria http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/03/europe/EU-Spain-Migrants.php Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT the bodies of five people believed to have been migrants trying to travel to Europe have been washed up on two places on the coast of southwest Turkey in near the Aegean Sea resort town of Bodrum http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_world_2_29/01/2009_104219 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:00:00 GMT Italian Carabinieri found 64 migrants among them one dead on a beach in Lampedusa. The group had made the crossing from North Africa in heavy seas in a large rubber dinghy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/22/lampedusa-italy-migrants-mayor Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:00:00 GMT an infant drowned during a search and rescue effort by Greek coast guard trying to to save 19 drowning migrants attempting to cross into Greece from Turkey. the migrants were travelling on the inflatable raft when it overturned due to high seas and strong winds off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Symi. 18 other passengers where recovered from the sea. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/250378,greek-coast-guard-rushes-to-save-drowning-immigrants-infant-dead.html Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:00:00 GMT four women drowned when a canoe containing african migrants capsized off the coast of Senegal. the women had been on board a boat containing 30 people that left from a Senegalese village headed for Spain. As the boat passed Dakar they wnated to abandon the trip and tried to transfer to a smaller boat which subseqently overturned. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/10/africa/AF-Senegal-Migrants.php Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:00:00 GMT Police in Morocco have shot dead an African migrant who was among 80 people trying to force their way into the Spanish enclave of Melilla. 16 people were arrested by the police, but the rest managed to escape. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7807423.stm Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:00:00 GMT a Spanish fisherman found the decomposing body of a migrant floating in the Mediterranean off the cliffs of Melilla la Vieja. http://www.diariosur.es/20081226/melilla/pescador-halla-cuerpo-vida-20081226.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:00:00 GMT Three bodies that were washed ashore in northwestern Turkey are believed to belong to either Somalis or Mauritanianmigrants trying to reach Greece. They were among 12 people aboard a rubber dinghy which sank in bad weather. Two passengers managed to swim ashore to three were rescued by the coast guard and four remain unaccounted for. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_world_0_22/12/2008_103228 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:00:00 GMT