Migrants Tell Harrowing Stories After Surviving Sinking Boat

4:17pm April 21, 2016

Survivors of a deadly shipwreck, Ismam Mowlid of Somalia (L) and Mahmud Muaz of Ethiopia react during a press conference in Athens on April 21, 2016. The UN refugee agency fears around 500 migrants from Africa had drowned in the Mediterranean, in what cou

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According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, as many as 500 people may have died on a boat that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy. NPR's Joanna Kakissis talks with Here & Now’s Robin Young about what some of the survivors are saying.

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Joanna Kakissis, NPR correspondent in Athens. She tweets @joannakakissis.

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Migrants Tell Harrowing Stories After Surviving Sinking Boat

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