🚢 2016 Egypt migrant shipwreck

On September 21, 2016, a boat designed to carry a maximum of 40 people capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) from shore near Rosetta, Egypt. The vessel was severely overcrowded and had an estimated 450 refugees aboard at the time of the incident. Survivors reported that migrants had been confined aboard the boat for 5 days as traffickers brought additional groups of migrants to the boat. Traffickers were attempting to load one final group of migrants when the boat capsized and subsequently sank.