OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush, British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood perished under the sea after their adventure to the wreckage of the Titanic in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.. This tragedy made headlines all over the world.
Barack Obama, speaking at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation conference in Athens on Thursday, slammed hypocrisy over interest in Titanic sub compared to migrant boat tragedy. Last week, a fishing boat packed with about 750 men, women and children capsized off the coast of Greece, with hundreds believed to have died. Obama whose father was from a Luo tribe found in Kenya didn’t mince his words, he went on to say, “Think about the circumstances which lead desperate people to come here. And we can’t ignore it,”
Hundreds are believed to have died, marking one of the deadliest tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea and showing on Europe’s refugee crisis as thousands desperately seek better lives away from the perils of war and poverty.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/barack-obama-titanic-sub-migrant-boat-b2363161.html
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