Death toll rises to 52 after migrant boat capsizes off Egypt
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CAIRO - Nine more bodies have been recovered from the Mediterranean a day after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt, officials said on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 52.
Police arrested four members of the boat's crew. Security sources said it had been loaded with almost 600 migrants.
The boat sank early on Wednesday off Burg Rashed, a village in Egypt's northern Beheira province where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. Rescue workers and fishermen have rescued 169 people, suggesting hundreds might have perished at sea.
