{"id":28876,"date":"2016-09-24T05:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T05:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-migrant-boat-sinking-death-toll-rises-to\/"},"modified":"2016-09-24T05:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T05:42:27","slug":"egypt-migrant-boat-sinking-death-toll-rises-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-migrant-boat-sinking-death-toll-rises-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt migrant boat sinking: Death toll rises to 162"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The number of bodies recovered after a migrant boat capsized off the Egyptian coast on Wednesday has reached at least 162, as the search continues.<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nThe boat was carrying between 450 and 600 migrants when it sank eight miles (12km) off the port city of Rosetta.<\/p>\n<p>It was transporting Egyptian, Syrian, Sudanese, Eritrean and Somali migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said at least 163 people have been rescued but survivors told the BBC that hundreds more may have drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC&#8217;s Orla Guerin in Rosetta, survivors said smugglers forced anyone who wanted a lifejacket to pay extra.<\/p>\n<p>Four crew members have been arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and human trafficking, Egyptian officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The boat, which was kept off the coast for five days as more migrants were brought on board, is said to have capsized after a final group of some 150 people were crammed onto the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came as the EU&#8217;s border agency warned that increasing numbers of Europe-bound migrants are using Egypt as a departure point.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 people have died crossing the Mediterranean towards Europe since 2014, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15235 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_91359552_gettyimages-609756110.jpg\" alt=\"Authorities say they have rescued at least 163 people after a boat capsized off the Egyptian coast\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The number of bodies recovered after a migrant boat capsized off the Egyptian coast on Wednesday has reached at least 162, as the search continues. } The boat was carrying between 450 and 600 migrants when it sank eight miles (12km) off the port city of Rosetta. It was transporting Egyptian, Syrian, Sudanese, Eritrean and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28876"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28876"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}