Record number of asylum seeker deaths at sea in 2014: International Organisation for Migration

By Sarah Whyte
Updated December 17 2014 - 8:08pm, first published 7:48pm
Brothers Ibrahim Awadallah, Mohammed Awadallah and Mamoun Doghmosh, who survived for four days after smugglers capsized their migrant boat. Photo: New York Times
Brothers Ibrahim Awadallah, Mohammed Awadallah and Mamoun Doghmosh, who survived for four days after smugglers capsized their migrant boat. Photo: New York Times

Six migrants floated in the freezing ocean in September, desperately trying not to slip under the thrashing waves. They had just watched 500 people drown in a small, unseaworthy boat captained by people smugglers who had since deserted them.

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