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A migrant boat that left Tobruk, Libya on March 21 drifted six days without food or water before 26 survivors were rescued off Crete by a Frontex vessel. Twenty-two people died from exhaustion and their bodies were thrown into the sea on smugglers' orders. Greek authorities arrested two South Sudanese men, aged 19 and 22, over the deaths.
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