{"id":21503,"date":"2012-07-11T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=21503"},"modified":"2012-07-11T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:11:57","slug":"54-asylum-seekers-die-on-journey-to-italy-21503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/54-asylum-seekers-die-on-journey-to-italy-21503\/","title":{"rendered":"54 asylum seekers die on journey to Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/asylum-seekers-die.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/asylum-seekers-die-e1342001406755.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Fifty-Four people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, the UNHCR says.<\/h1>\n<p>Only one person, an Eritrean man, survived the 15-day ordeal after the 55 passengers set off from Libya in late June, the United Nations&#8217; refugee organisation said late on Tuesday from its headquarters in Geneva, calling the incident a &#8220;tragedy&#8221;.\u00a0The survivor was rescued off the Tunisian coast late on Monday, and was being treated for dehydration and exposure.\u00a0The others died of dehydration, as they had not taken any water, he told UNHCR staff.<br \/>\nThey came within sight of the Italian coast a day after leaving Libya, but were pushed back out to sea by high winds, he said.\u00a0He was found clinging to a jerrycan and the remains of their inflatable boat, which had developed a puncture.\u00a0More than 1300 people from Libya have arrived in Italy by boat this year, and 1000 in Malta, according to the UNHCR, while around 170 have died since January attempting to cross to Europe.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-Four people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, the UNHCR says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[27844,27845,27846,27847,27851,1131,27848,27850,27849,22320,27843,27842],"class_list":["post-21503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-asylum","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-asylum-seekers-die","tag-eritrean-man","tag-fifty-four-people-die","tag-libya","tag-libya-italy-asylum","tag-malta-italy-asylum-libya","tag-tunis-libya-eritrea","tag-unhcr","tag-unhcr-libya","tag-united-nation-refugee-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}