{"id":46611,"date":"2023-01-09T16:46:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T15:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=46611"},"modified":"2023-01-09T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T15:47:17","slug":"19-years-since-the-tragedy-of-january-9-in-remembrance-of-28-albanians-who-drowned-in-the-ionian-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/19-years-since-the-tragedy-of-january-9-in-remembrance-of-28-albanians-who-drowned-in-the-ionian-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"19 years since the January 9 tragedy, in remembrance of 28 Albanians who drowned in the Ionian Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Today marks 19 years since the tragedy of January 9, 2004, when 28 Albanians drowned in the waters of the Ionian Sea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">They were mostly young people from the Shkodra district, aged between 15 and 33 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">They had given 1,500 euros to the boat drivers in hopes that the crossing to the other side of the sea would fix their lives, but most of them didn&#8217;t know that they were actually paying for their death. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">18 men and 3 women were found dead on the morning of January 10 by a NATO helicopter belonging to the Italian army. 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