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At Least 139 Migrants Die in Boat Capsize Off Djibouti
How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.
OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN
HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 6 HEADLINES
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11 Oct, 12:16 UTC
At least 109 migrants dead, 116 missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti
- 11 Oct, 18:12 UTC
- 12 Oct, 00:10 UTC
- 12 Oct, 06:45 UTC
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12 Oct, 12:10 UTC
At least 139 migrants dead, 84 missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti
- 12 Oct, 18:11 UTC
WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER
From the first reports to the latest
- 139 migrants dead · 16 outlets
Entered the story later
- Nothing new took hold after the first third.
Figures reported with different numbers
- migrants dead: 109 (15 from 11 Oct 09:43) → 139 (16 from 11 Oct 14:00) → 100 (2 from 11 Oct 22:00)
- missing boat: 100 (1 from 11 Oct 09:43) → 116 (12 from 11 Oct 10:03) → 84 (2 from 11 Oct 12:08)
- migrants died: 109 (1 from 11 Oct 10:54) → 900 (5 from 11 Oct 10:54) → 139 (3 from 11 Oct 18:17)
- people survived: 80 (6 from 11 Oct 09:03) → 82 (2 from 11 Oct 15:36)
- bodies recovered: 139 (1 from 11 Oct 09:03) → 109 (3 from 11 Oct 10:03) → 30 (3 from 11 Oct 14:08)
- dead migrant: 139 (5 from 11 Oct 15:15) → 109 (2 from 11 Oct 19:30)
Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.