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Taliban reports 80 dead in boat accident off Italian coast

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday’s shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy.

“With great sadness, we learned… that 80 Afghan refugees, including women and children, who were traveling from Turkey to Italy in a wooden boat, drowned and died in the southern sea of ​​Italy,” the Afghan foreign affairs ministry said in a statement.

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan prays for forgiveness for the martyrs and patience for the families and relatives of the victims, urging all citizens once again to avoid going to foreign countries through irregular migration,” the statement added, referring to the Taliban’s name for its government.

The boat had set sail from the port of Izmir in western Turkey. The UN refugee agency has said almost half of the arrivals by sea between Turkey and Italy last year were Afghans.

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