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Nothing to celebrate this International Migrants Day, refugee organisations say
Alarm Phone asks why authorities still have no answer to what happened to 91 people who went missing in the Mediterranean in February
A small boat is towed by a Border Force vessel as Border Force Searcher (top) patrols the coastline following a small boat incident in the Channel

THERE is nothing to celebrate about Europe’s treatment of refugees at its external borders, said migrant rights organisations on International Migrants Day today.

Alarm Phone, an activist network that runs a hotline for refugees in distress at sea, called on the European and Libyan coastguard authorities today to release the results of their investigations into the estimated 91 people who went missing in the central Mediterranean 10 months ago.

The 91 people departed from Garabulli, Libya, in a rubber boat late at night on February 9.

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