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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 88535, member: 27"]
Boat capsizing off Comoros coast claims at least seventeen lives as migrants desperate for Mayotte get abandoned at sea.

Tragedy strikes near Mitsamiouli
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[*]Authorities pulled seventeen bodies from waters around Grande Comore.
[*]Hospital counts eighteen dead including those who drowned after drifting.
[*]Roughly thirty survivors got rescued many unable to swim at all.
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Smugglers ditch group far short
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[*]Migrants mostly from Democratic Republic of Congo aimed for Mayotte.
[*]Traffickers dumped them hundreds of kilometres from the target island.
[*]Overcrowded kwassa-kwassa boats lack life jackets or reliable engines.
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Mayotte lures with French perks
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[*]French overseas territory grants access to welfare healthcare and education.
[*]Just seventy kilometres away but currents and weather turn deadly fast.
[*]Poverty and joblessness in Comoros plus Congo keep pushing people over.
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Route racks up grim toll
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[*]Thousands risk it yearly often in unseaworthy overloaded vessels.
[*]Hundreds of Comorians perished since 2010 with totals possibly much higher.
[*]Past cases saw boats deliberately flipped or rammed during intercepts.
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France tightens grip amid strain
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[*]Visa rules deportations and slum clearances ramp up controls.
[*]Relations with Comoros sour over migration tactics and natural disaster fallout.
[*]Asylum seekers from farther afield add extra pressure on the system.
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