Sentence examples for has sunk off from inspiring English sources
A fishing boat packed with up to 350 migrants heading for Europe has sunk off the Libyan coast and at least 10 Egyptians are among the dead, the Egyptian state news agency MENA said Monday.
A refugee boat, which included several Syrians, has sunk off the coast of Turkey killing 58 people.
A boat, reportedly containing Iraqi and Syrian refugees, has sunk off the coast of Turkey killing at least 20 people, according to the Turkish daily Hurriyet.
Now comes this news item: A replica 16th Century junk has sunk off Taiwan, one day short of completing an epic voyage to the US and back (see article).
A boat carrying as many as 170 people believed to be asylum seekers bound for Australia has sunk off the south coast of Indonesia, with up to 60 people feared dead or missing, the Australian news media reported Wednesday.
10.15am BST Refugee boat sinks off Turkey A boat, reportedly containing Iraqi and Syrian refugees, has sunk off the coast of Turkey killing at least 20 people, according to the Turkish daily Hurriyet.
Some of the items were from the Maravillas, a Spanish galleon that had sunk off the Bahamas in 1656.
DELEGATES were getting ready to leave an immigration conference in Tangiers at the end of November when Morocco announced that yet another vessel had sunk off the coast, with 30 migrants on board.
On Wednesday morning we woke to the news that a passenger ferry had sunk off the coast of South Korea, with at least four people confirmed dead and 280 unaccounted for.
This, and any other shipwrecks found, will be subject to an analysis similar to that which Dr Foley and his colleagues Katerina Dellaporta, of Greece's ministry of culture, and Dimitris Sakellariou, of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Anavyssos, applied to his previous target, a cargo vessel that had sunk off the island port of Chios, in water 70 metres deep.
Few moments have hit the country harder than news that the ferry Sewol had sunk off the country's southern coast last month, leading to the deaths of almost 300 people, most of them high school students on field trips.
