Hundreds feared drowned in Egypt sinking

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Cairo - Hundreds of people are now believed to have drowned in the waters off Egypt following the sinking of a boat on Wednesday. Survivors have said that there were about 550 migrants on board, with more and more having been crammed on to the vessel as it waited to leave the port of Rosetta for Italy. Many were Egyptians, but others were from East Africa and the Horn of Africa. The Egyptian authorities say they have recovered 42 bodies from the Mediterranean of Kafr al-Sheikh and rescued 160 people. A relative of one of the migrants on board the boat said that the Egyptian authorities were too slow to act:      We have been telling the authorities since 05:30 (03:30GMT) that the boat is sinking, and they were saying they had no rescue boats, and no-one was moving. The fishing boats that we have, they are the ones who set out to look for the boat, and they took the dead from the sea, and the children out from the sea.(FA)

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