June 21, 2023

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Wednesday, June 21. *) Underwater noises heard as crews race to find Titanic tourist sub The US Coast Guard has confirmed early that rescue teams looking for the missing Titanic sub detected “underwater noises” in the search area where the craft went missing two days earlier. Authorities in the US and Canada are racing against the clock to locate the vessel that was carrying people to see the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic Ocean. When it went missing, the submersible had 96 hours of additional oxygen available. *) Death toll from migrant boat sinking off Greece rises to 82 The death toll from last week’s sinking of a fishing boat crammed with refugees and migrants off the coast of southwestern Greece climbed to 82, with hundreds more feared drowned. The body of a migrant was recovered in an area close to the sinking, said the state-run AMNA news agency, adding that search operations are still underway with the participation of a Greek frigate, helicopter and aircraft. A total of 104 people have been rescued, but the death toll is expected to rise as survivors said the vessel was carrying more than 600 migrants, mostly from Pakistan, Egypt and Syria. *) Dozens of inmates burn to death in Honduras jail riot A riot at a women’s prison in Honduras has killed at least 41 women, most of them burned to death, in violence linked to gang activity, authorities said. Most victims were burned, but there also were reports of inmates shot at the prison in Tamara, about 48 kilometres northwest of the Honduran capital, said Yuri Mora, the spokesperson for Honduras’ national police investigation agency. At least seven female inmates were being treated at a hospital for gunshot and knife wounds, employees there said. *) Sudan fighting uproots 2.5 million as bodies line Darfur streets Bodies have lined the streets in Sudan’s western Darfur region as the United Nations said that more than two months of fighting had forced over 2.5 million people from their homes.