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Oct 28, 2016

A cemetery of water

Staff wear protective clothing to protect themselves from fuel inhalation and chemical burns that could be caused by the mixture of sea water and petrol that remains in the rubber boat. © Borja Ruiz Rodriguez/MSF

Dr. Federica Zamatto MSF medical coordinator for migration projects Body bags sadly aligned on the deck of the Bourbon Argos. With feet in the fuel, sour air, our team has been retrieving the bodies of 29 people killed by fuel exhalation, drowned in...

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