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		</div><p>More than 400 migrants, mostly from Somalia, are reported to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on a boat trip from Libya to Italy.</p>
<p>The disaster came on the first anniversary of the Lampedusa tragedy in which some 800 died.</p>
<p>The charity Oxfam Ireland has called on the acting minister for defence to re-deploy Irish Navy vessels to the Mediterranean.</p>
<p>Oxfam is calling on Irish and European governments to immediately ensure safe and legal passage for all those travelling to Europe.</p>
<p>Somalia&#8217;s state radio quoted the Somali Embassy in Egypt in reporting the incident.</p>
<p>In a joint statement from the president, prime minister and speaker of parliament in Somalia, they said 400 migrants had drowned in the capsizing.</p>
<p>But later the Somali information minister said there was confusion over the number of casualties, which could be 200.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a painful tragedy which reminds us all how important it is for us to discourage our youth from embarking on such high risk journeys,&#8221; the statement said.</p>
<p>A Somali news website, Goobjoog News, carried an interview with Awale Warsame, who said survived the incident.</p>
<p>&#8220;There were 500 passengers, mostly Somalis on the boat, but only 23 people survived,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Survivors, including me, had to use broken wood pieces from the capsized boat to float over waters before we were rescued.</p>
<p>&#8220;We had travelled from Egypt, especially Alexandria, on April 7th and the boat capsized on April 12 but we were rescued by a Filipino ship off a Greek island five days later.&#8221;</p>
<p>Egyptian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said his office had no information and officials are checking the reports.</p>
<p>The Greek coast guard said it had no report of a boat sinking in the area.</p>
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