As of today, the consensus estimate for the number of people who drowned in the Mediterranean over the weekend is between eight and nine hundred. Most were packed onto a single boat that set off from Libya, stalled in the water, and capsized. The dead have been labelled as migrants, undocumented immigrants, and asylum seekers. The simplest word for them might be passengers. Most had paid human traffickers many times the price of a flight to Rome from Cairo or Tunis.
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