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September 2, 2026
The Istanbul Governor's Office said that two Turkish-flagged ships collided in the Sea of Marmara off Istanbul on?Wednesday. Contact has been lost with the other ship. The Turkish-flagged Alsu and the Turkish-flagged Tugberk Imamoglu collided at 3 a.m.
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August 30, 2026
Turkish Cypriot Media reported that one person died when a boat capsized with 270 people aboard off North Cyprus Sunday. Erhan Arikli, Turkish Cypriot Transport Minister, told Anadolu one person died when the ferry capsized. Erhan Arikli said that there were 267 passengers on board.
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August 27, 2026
The Tunisian authorities announced on Thursday that they had recovered the remains of the last missing migrants from a boat which sank last week off the coast, bringing the total death toll up to 14. Tunisian Observatory for Human Rights said that the boat carried mostly young people.
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August 24, 2026
The head of an migrant rights organization said that a hospital in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia, has received at least 19 bodies of migrants who were recovered from the sea over the last two days. This follows the sinking of the boat at the weekend.
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August 23, 2026
A spokesperson for the National Guard said that the Tunisian Coast Guard recovered the bodies of 8 Tunisian migrants whose boat had sunk at the weekend while en route to Italy. The'search' continues for six other people who are still missing.
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August 21, 2026
At least 13 Tunisians have gone missing after a migrant ship sank near the Tunisian coastline while sailing to Italy. Two people were rescued. Mostafa Abdulkebir, head of the Tunisian Observatory for Human Rights told reporters that the boat left early on Thursday morning.
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August 21, 2026
Sussex Police announced on Friday that a six-year old Palestinian-British child, whose parents and sister died earlier this week, after they 'got into difficulty' in?the sea? off the southern coasts of England, also passed away at hospital.
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August 20, 2026
The?couple of Palestinians and Britishers, along with their daughter, died on Tuesday in the sea off?the southern coast?of England. A second daughter is in critical condition. Police identified the victims as Hassan El-Khawas (55), his?partner Zeina Al-Alayn (37)…
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August 12, 2026
Police said that at least '44 people died after a passenger ferry capsized in a Zimbabwean lake on Tuesday. This is roughly triple the earlier estimate of 'deaths. Officers said that the investigation suggested that the 'boat was overloaded' when it flipped over in heavy winds on Lake Kariba.
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August 12, 2026
A 'local official' told the state-owned The Herald newspaper that 15 bodies have been recovered from a lake where a passenger ferry capsized on Tuesday. At least 27 people, including children, are still missing. The police said that on Tuesday…
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August 6, 2026
Chinese authorities marked the deaths of 2 Coast Guard personnel on a frontline mission in the South China Sea in August, last year. This is the first apparent acknowledgment that there were fatalities following the high-profile collision between Chinese ships.
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August 4, 2026
'A projectile hit an 'Indian-flagged ship near Yemen, causing the vessel to sank and capsize, but all 14 seafarers were rescued. India's Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal stated on Tuesday, in a posting on X. Sonowal reported that all 14…
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August 4, 2026
Authorities said that 17 migrants had died after trying to reach a Spanish island, the Balearic Islands, following a 15-day journey. They cited the testimony of two survivors who were rescued from a boat off the coast of Mallorca. The Spanish…
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August 4, 2026
The local administration released a statement saying that the French coastguards saved 157 migrants from a burning boat in the English Channel near Boulogne sur Mer on Tuesday. The local French administration, which is responsible for the English Channel and North Sea area…
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July 30, 2026
The leader of Spain's North African Enclave, Ceuta, said that the situation in the city is a humanitarian crisis and security emergency. In the last week alone 1,500 migrants have arrived by swimming from Morocco to the city. Ceuta and Melilla…
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July 28, 2026
Andrii 'Sybiha, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said that he spoke to his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi on Tuesday, after Iran denounced a Ukrainian drone attack on one of its ships. He warned him about escalation, and told him he should stop all support for Russia.
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July 28, 2026
The captain and two members of the crew?of an overturned passenger ferry in Guyana? were charged on Tuesday with murder, more than a week after the disaster that killed 73 people?and still left 30 other persons missing. The 87-year old MV Barima…
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July 26, 2026
China's CCTV reported that rescuers are searching for 23 missing people after a Vietnamese ship went down in the busy waterway of the South China Sea. 39 people were rescued from the waters. CCTV reported that authorities in Hainan province…
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July 24, 2026
The grand jury will examine the circumstances of the death of Nolan Wells before the evidence in the case is made public. A local prosecutor announced this week that the grand jury would review the circumstances of the death. Nolan Wells' body…
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July 16, 2026
UN agencies reported on Thursday that two boats with a total of?more? than 500 people could have sunk off Myanmar's coastline in the last few days. This is as refugees fleeing war-torn Myanmar make dangerous maritime journeys to seek safety and better living conditions.
