An Egyptian court sentenced 56 people to prison on Sunday over the capsizing of a migrant boat that left over 200 people dead last year. The defendants were sentenced to at least seven years in jail, judicial sources said, with some sentences extending to 13 or 14 years. The boat sank in the Mediterranean off Burg Rashid, a village in Egypt's northern Beheira province where the sea and the Nile meet. It had been carrying Egyptian, Sudanese, Eritrean and Somali migrants and was believed to be heading for Italy. In the worst known incident, around 500 African migrants and their children died when a fishing boat capsized off Egypt's coast in April.

Source: Egypt Independent March 26, 2017 11:48 UTC