Sentence examples for migrants is believed from inspiring English sources

In the latest incident, the vessel carrying more than 200 migrants is believed to have encountered difficulties in Maltese waters just before sunset on Friday.

The migrants are believed to have cracked a keypad code by working out which of the buttons were the most worn and therefore the most used.

Between 800 and 850 migrants were believed to be in the Calais area, while up to 650 were in the city's port area hoping to reach Britain.

The United Nations said on Thursday that at least 239 migrants were believed to have died in two shipwrecks off Libya in recent days.

In the old downtown, where a vast sewing sweatshop collapsed, some two hundred workers, many said to be Central American migrants, are believed to have been killed; a similar tragedy occurred at nearly the same place in 1985.

More than 2,000 migrants are believed to have died in the past eight months while making the journey across the treacherous Mediterranean sea in overfull, unseaworthy boats operated by people smugglers, according to Doctors Without Borders.

As the United Nations warned of a "massive humanitarian disaster", up to 8,000 migrants were believed to be abandoned at sea by smugglers scared off by Thailand's recent crackdown on human traffickers.

Many migrants are believed to have perished from disease or starvation.

More than 1,700 migrants are believed to have died so far in 2015.

More than 1,700 migrants are believed to have died so far in 2015, in attempts to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.

As many as 400 migrants are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea as their boat capsized off the Libyan coast.