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![Women grieve as the coffin of one of the 24 migrants who drowned while trying to reach Italy, is buried in Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery on the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, on April 23, 2015. The migrants died as a smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ap_336612317674-315d452316eaf57948a39dbb781578dc8e3ecf48-e1530635570363-900x422.jpg)
WOUB News • WORLD: The Daunting Task Of Identifying Missing Migrants
By: Joanna Kakissis | NPR
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The International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague has identified remains of 18,000 people in the Balkans. Its new challenge: to I.D. the remains of migrants who died trying to reach Europe.