"They were in front of us, not far from the shore, when the overcrowded boat capsized," one refugee was quoted as saying of the incident on Friday after landing in Lampedusa.

“他们就在我们的前面，当那艘超载船只倾覆的时候，他们离海岸并不远，”一名刚刚到蓝佩杜萨岛(意大利属)的难民描述说。

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Line out: These 200 Burmese, queuing for rations at an Indonesian refugee camp on Feb. 12, were some of the more than 1, 000 who tried to cross by boat into Thailand in February.

排队：这200名缅甸人2月12日在印度尼西亚难民营排队接受食物救济，他们是二月份乘船试图进入泰国的1,000多名难民中的一部分。

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Spokeswoman for the U. N. refugee agency, Melissa Fleming, says one of the survivors told UNHCR staff their boat was so packed there was barely any room to stand.

难民署的发言人梅里莎·弗莱明说，有一名生还者告诉难民署官员，他们搭乘的船非常拥挤，连站立的空间都不够。

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The youngest of seven hyperachieving children of a Vietnamese shrimper in Kemah, she had been born in exile on the South China Sea, her mother going into frightened labor shortly after their refugee boat was boarded by pirates.

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Fernandez, the youngest pitcher in club history, came to the United States by boat as a Cuban refugee in 2008.

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One refugee, who called himself Mohamed, told CNN that their boat had been at sea for a month, and that Myanmar's military had detained and attacked them before setting their boat on fire.

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