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Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service and this is BBCOS Conversations

with Migrants.

There is debate once again about the migrant challenge in Europe after a boat sank off

the coast of Italy.

We're also still trying to comprehend the pictures of that wrecked wooden vessel, rows and

rows of wooden coffins.

As we do, we've been thinking about those who risk everything on such journeys.

After eight, nine hours, we started to lose air.

It was complete darkness.

I came face to face with death at that time.

I've touched this, I smelled it, I've heard this.

It's hard, isn't it, to forget words like that.

And the story from Italy this past week does, I'm afraid, feel familiar.

Around 200 people boarded the boat a few days earlier and set sail from Turkey.

They'd already travelled from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Iran.

It was a February day in Europe, so it was cold, the seas were rough.

The result sadly was tragedy, many died.

This leg of the trip is described as the deadliest migration route on the planet.

And so in recent days, we've been hearing stories of people who've made journeys like

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