Meanwhile in Africa
Sahara migrant survivor: I buried my family
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24768560
"The bodies of 87 people, thought to be migrants, were discovered in the Sahara desert in the north of Niger on Wednesday. They died of thirst when their vehicles broke down en route to Algeria. Shafa, a 14-year-old girl from Niger, survived and told the BBC's Newsday programme her story:
We were on our way to Algeria to visit family members. There were more than 100 of us in a convoy of two vehicles. Our truck broke down and it took a whole day to fix. In that time we ran out of water.
We managed to find a well but there was very little water - one of us climbed down into the well and managed to draw out a tiny amount, but the rest of us went thirsty.
The drivers told us to wait while others went to fetch water, but a night and a day later they had not returned.
That was when people started dying. Some 15 of us died on that second day without water. "
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"Some vehicles passed by, we tried to stop them but no-one would stop. One of the passing cars even knocked down three of our group and killed them. "
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"There were eight of us by now, including my mum and my younger sisters. When we got tired, we sat under a tree, and that was where one of my sisters died. We buried her there.
Then we continued walking and after a day, my second sister died. Then on the third day my mother died. I buried all of them myself. "