Migrant crisis: EU may double size of Mediterranean operation

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Left to right are French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, Spanish minister of interior Jorge Fernandez Diaz and EU Commissioner of Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos at the start of a joint session of Foreign and Interior Ministers on Migration issues at EU headquarters in Luxembourg, April 20th, 2015. Top topic was the plight of migrants following the Mediterranean tragedy in which as many as 900 people were drowned at the weekend. Photograph: Julien Warnand/EPA

Illegal migrants arrving at Zefyros beach on Rhodes in Greece on Monday. A ship with 200 people on board run aground at Rhodes central beach Zefyros. Most of the migrants fell into the water and managed to swim safely to the beach with the assistance of the locals. The ship run aground on rocks. The bodies of a man, a woman and a child were recovered during a rescue operation. Photograph: Loukas Mastis/EPA

Mon Apr 20 2015 - 20:30

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