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Twenty-four drown off Mexico as boat sinks

19 Oct 2007 21:47:29 GMT
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OAXACA, Mexico, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Twenty-four people believed to be Central American illegal immigrants drowned when their boat sank off southern Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday, a local emergency official said.

The 24 bodies washed up on beaches near the town of Juchitan in the state of Oaxaca, civil protection official Sergio Segreste told Reuters.

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