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 Police in Amphilochia in western Greece have found the bodies of four dead migrants in a truck abandoned outside a cemetery. The men are believed to be from Iraq and died of suffocated during the journey. http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=196495 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:00:00 GMT Rescuers retrieved the bodies of two migrants off the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the North African coast. They were believed to have drowned several months ago while trying to enter the enclave. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1581531.php/Thirty-seven-migrants-feared-to-have-died-on-way-to-Spain Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT 12 sub saharan africans trying to reach Europe have died from thirst and hunger in the Algerian desert. according to survivors of the failed journey who returned to northern Mali the group ran out of food and water after their truck broke down between the Algerian border and the town of Tamanrasset. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j-hSOD5E5rkM_pJyjBySYM023nHg Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT the corpses of 5 African migrants have been recovered from the Mediterranean sea after their dinghy overturned off the Balearic Islands and their bodies were carried towards the Costa Blanca coast by strong currents. http://www.roundtownnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24890&Itemid=9 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT 1 would-be immigrant drowned and seven others are missing and are resumed to have drowned after their small boat capsized off the tiny Spanish island of Tabarca, near the eastern city of Alicante. only 2 of the 10 passengers were rescued. http://www.expatica.com/es/news/spanish-news/one-dead-seven-missing-after-migrant-boat-sinks-off-spain_89480.html Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT 5 people have been found dead in a boat off the coast of Motril, Granada after the boat was spotted by a coast guard plane patroling the spanish coast. 2 of 30 survivors have been hospitalized in critical condition. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/muertos/bebes/patera/Motril/elpepiesp/20100711elpepinac_20/Tes Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT 1 person drowned and 3 have been rescued by a merachnt vessel after a boat carrying Algerian migrants to Spain sank about 30 kilometres from the Spanish city of Almeria. 11 of the 14 people that were on the boat, which left the Algerian town of Oran for the trip across the Mediterranean Sea are still missing and are believed to have drowned. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/318644,eleven-algerians-feared-to-have-drowned-off-spain.html Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT the Greek Coast Guard recovered corpse of a drowned migrant off the coast of Alexandroupoli. It is believed that he drowned when boat ran aground at the end of December bringing the total loss of life from that shipwrek to 22. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_2_14/01/2010_114026 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:00:00 GMT Greek fisherman and Greek rescuers have recovered the bodies of 21 migrants in the delta of the Maritsa/Evros river that forms the border between Greece and Turkey. It is believed that they belong to a group of people who failed in an attempt to cross the river from Turkey into Greece. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-198151-100-death-toll-reaches-21-in-suspected-boat-capsizing.html Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:00:00 GMT three additional bodies have been recovered from the river Tizra after a boat carrying 15 migrants sank in an attempt to cross from Serbia to Hungary on October 15th. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BF3J820091216 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:00:00 GMT a fifteen year old afghan migrant was killed while crossing a highway outside Calais. He was part of a group of migrants looking for opportunities to cross into Britain by hiding in a truck. http://fortresseurope.blogspot.com/2009/12/calais-jeune-afghan-tue-fauche-par-une.html Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:00:00 GMT a boat carrying 27 migrants sank in bad weather off the coast of the Greek island of Leros. Local fishermmen managed to rescue 25 passengers from a rocky islet and recovered the bodies of two others, who appear to have drowned. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-195322-101-boat-carrying-illegal-immigrants-sinks-killing-2.html Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:00:00 GMT the bodies of three more victims of the shipwreck off Bodrum have been recovered by the Turkish coast guard. http://www.javno.com/en-world/seven-dead-as-migrant-boat-capsizes-off-turkey_280640 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT four Palestinians drowned and one was missing after their boat capsized off the resort town of Bodrum in southwestern Turkey. Thirteen passengers were rescued after local residents heard shouting from the sea and sailed out in a fishing boat. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=four-dead-as-migrant-boat-capsizes-off-turkey-2009-11-06 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT Serbian authorities have lifted another two bodies, a child and a man, out of the river Tisza. The belong to a group of migrants that drowned two weeks ago attempting to cross the river from Serbia into Hungary. Altogether eight bodies have been recovered so far. http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/two_more_bod/?cHash=8f7c2426b9 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT Hungarian and Serbian police have found five drowned bodies in the river between the two countries after a boat carrying 19 migrants from Kosovo sank when they tried to cross the River Tisza into Hungary on october 15th. http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=265373 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT the Spanish coast guard has rescued two migrants from a small boat off the south eastern coast of Cartagena. The bodies of two other migrants were retrieved from the boat as well. The surviving passengers were found in a serious condition with dehydration and hypothermia and were transferred to a hospital in Santa Maria del Rosell. http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_23704.shtml Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT Eight migrants - five minors and three women - drowned off the Greek Island of Lesvos in the eastern Aegean when the boat carrying them from Turkey capsized. The greek coast guard rescued 10 people. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_29/10/2009_111946http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_29/10/2009_111946 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT after 5 days adrift in the stormy sea between Libya and Sicily 298 migrants from Somalia and Eritrea have been transferred from the boat carrying them to the port of Pozzallo on south coast of Sicily. Italian rescue services also found the body of one dead migrant on the 17 meter long vessel. http://www.repubblica.it/2009/09/sezioni/cronaca/immigrati-12/200-barcone/200-barcone.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT the bodies of two migrants have been found washed ashore on a beach near the Sicilian town of Gela and four are missing and assumed to have drowned after 7 migrants had attempted to swim ashore from a raft drifting off the coast of Sicily. http://fortresseurope.blogspot.com/2009/10/abbandonati-in-mare-sei-morti-gela.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT At least eight migrants have drowned after a small boat carrying about 40 people sank close to Perejil Island off the Moroccan coast in the straight of Gibraltar. Spanish and Moroccan rescue services have managed to rescue 11 passengers, the fate of the remaining passengers is unknown. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/muertos/naufragio/patera/cerca/Perejil/elpepuesp/20090919elpepunac_3/Tes Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT one migrant has drowned in the waters off the Spanish island of Teneriffe when disembarking from a small boat carrying 5 undocumented migrants. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Llegan/pateras/Canarias/inmigrante/muerto/elpepuesp/20090831elpepunac_4/Tes Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT the bodies of two migrants have been found floating in the mediteranean sea off off the Maltese city of Birzebbugia after two boats carrying 79 migrants landed on Malta. http://fortresseurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/malta-recuperato-un-altro-cadavere-al.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT the decomposing body of an african migrant was found floating in the sea off Linosa, 24 miles on the north of Lampedusa. It is belived that he died aboard a boat carrying up to 80 eritrean migrants attempting to reach Italy and was thrown into the sea by his fellow passengers a few days earlier. http://fortresseurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/trovato-un-cadavere-largo-di-linosa.html Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT a patrol boat of the Guardia di Finanza has rescued 5 Eritrean migrants from a rubber dinghy that was floating 12 miles of off the coast of Lampedusa. All of them are in poor medical condition from starvation and dehydration. According to the survivors the boat carrying 78 passengers had left the Libyan coast 3 weeks earlier and had run out of food water and gasoline about a week later. during the 3 week odyssey in the straight of gibraltar 73 other passengers died from starvation and where thrown overboard. Maritime rescue services have sighted multiple corpses along the route of the dinghy. http://fortresseurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/italia-5-eritrei-lampedusa-75-morti.html Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT