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    BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 11 Oct 2013

    Search & rescue operation underway after boat carrying 200 migrants capsized off Sicily, Italian officials sayhttp://bbc.in/1g6oUIO 

    10:16 AM - 11 Oct 2013
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      2. Eric M Kiefer‏ @ericmkiefer 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking @BBCWorld Stop giving the Italians ships, they clearly have difficulties navigating them [*cough] #CostaConcordia

        3 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. Olohunse  🇳🇬 🇪🇨‏ @rockcitiboi 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @ericmkiefer

        @ericmkiefer @bbcbreaking. not #Italians, it's #Africa invading #Europe for better or worse. these guys won't learn. a pity.

        0 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
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      1. Jinny Newton‏ @jinjas 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking @BBCWorld Do u know how many more are coming by boat after this one??? It's nuts!!!

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      1. Annamaria Baglioni‏ @hanabionweb 11 Oct 2013
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        @BBCBreaking @BBCWorld other migrants killed ashore in Egypt, south mediterranean teemed with boats. Please refrain from jokes, it's tragedy

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      1. St Barnabas Ealing‏ @Barnabites 11 Oct 2013
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        @BBCBreaking @chriskidd Praying, from our safe country and cosy homes, for those desperate people in the water in Sicily right now

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      1. Ali Clarke‏ @ALICECLARKE2 11 Oct 2013
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        @BBCBreaking what a risk these migrants have to take, to escape their troubles. What a frightening & horrible risk on their lives.

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      1. (((MMc)))‏ @martinmcnamara 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking oh for god sake do they never lesrn

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      1. Vanessa Campbell‏ @Wiccetrix 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking Why do people risk their lives & spend resources fishing corpses out of the sea? Living people may be worth it but corpses2burn

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      1. Ken, but way spookier  ☠️ 🎃 💀 👻‏ @K_D_Campbell 11 Oct 2013
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        @BBCBreaking Again?

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      1. Natalie Andrews‏ @Revnataliea 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking - praying for yet more searching for the 'promised land of Europe' this is tragic

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      1. Tommaso Della Longa‏ @TDellaLonga 11 Oct 2013
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        @BBCBreaking Italian Red Cross: Humanitarian corridors now! http://tinyurl.com/myqlr6h  #Lampedusa

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      1. Leonardo Alia‏ @7he_Leo 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking @BBCWorld @HilaryWingfield UE is hypocritical, cries out against Italy, but does nothing. why no boat never arrives in Malta?

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      1. Tom French‏ @TomFrenchy91 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking another one!

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      1. Squeezed Middle‏ @HilaryWingfield 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        .@BBCBreaking Does EU provide special funding for this type of event? How can Italy afford to stand alone on this? Needs an EU solution!

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      1. DIЯΓICДSH‏ @DirtiCash99 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking oh well....

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      1. Jennie Tang‏ @jennietang0706 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking I sincerely hope that the victims in the ship disaster in Italy to rest in peace and no more death being found.#JOUR2006

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      1. Celebzter‏ @Celebzter 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking Please Retweet this heartwrenching tale of love and loss http://goo.gl/pAS1Of 

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      1. ™ ☆ sherpa ☆‏ @xx31_lExx 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking search n rescue ? But isn't this from last week . Another one ?

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      1. Annamaria Baglioni‏ @hanabionweb 11 Oct 2013
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking @BBCWorld 500 rescued previously by bad and racist Italians. Death of migrants did not stop invasion, Lampedusa crammed full.

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