11 Economic Migrants, die painful deaths

USA: October 15th 2002
     When rail workers opened a boxcar at the rail sidings in Denison, 60 miles northeast of Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday 15th October 2002. They found 11 badly decomposed bodies, nationalities unknown but believed to be Mexican. Medical officials said all the victims had probably died slow and painful deaths from dehydration and asphyxia.
       The boxcar had been locked from the outside and there was no sign of food or water. Records showed that the boxcar had left Matamoros in Mexico in June of this year, taken to a siding in Oklahoma and had remained there until earlier this week before being moved to a grain sil0 at Denison, where the gruesome discovery was made.

Red Sea, claims more lives - 50 Survive, 70 Killed
     70 economic refugees have died trying to reach Saudi Arabia to find work. All are believed to be Somali's, there were 50 survivors all critically ill. They had boarded a boat at Marear, a small coastal village on the north east coast of Somalia, on the Red sea. After only one day at sea the engines failed and the boat drifted for 17 days, before drifting ashore this Monday.
     Several hundred Somali's have died in the Red sea trying to escape Somalia's civil war, which has been raging for nearly 12 years.