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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8525

22 August 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/immigration
Over 742 illegal immigrants die in last eighteen months as they seek to cross EU borders

Brussels, 21/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), over 742 people have died in the past eighteen months as they sought an illegal entry into the European Union. "The number of deaths is certainly even higher, as only those officially recorded have been taken into account", the British research institute states after conducting a study in this connection. The IRR points out that the majority who died are African, but that there are also Iraqis, Kurds,...

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