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They clung on to drifting wood for nine hours

More than two hundred people died last week trying to reach European shores from Libya. They had set off in a small boat from the town of Zuwara. Mohamad Ali Harissi from AFP spoke to some of the survivors in Zuwara and he told Outside Source's Arian Koci what he found out there.
(Photo: The boat, bottom right, carrying migrants that sank off the coast on Thursday, 27th August, is pulled to shore in Zuwara, Libya. Credit: AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)

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