# Simshar incident

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'''Simshar incident''' refers to an incident whereby four people died before or after an explosion took place aboard a fishing vessel named ''Simshar'' off the eastern coast of [Malta](/source/Malta). The incident took place on July 11, 2008.<ref name="Times of Malta">{{cite web |url=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090706/local/fishermen-mum-on-simshar-tragedy-report.263865 |title=Fishermen mum on Simshar tragedy report |accessdate=10 February 2016 |work=Times of Malta}}</ref>

==Incident==
On the morning of 7 July 2008, ''Simshar'' departed the coast of [Marsaxlokk](/source/Marsaxlokk), a small, traditional [fishing village](/source/fishing_village) in the [South Eastern Region](/source/South_Eastern_Region) of [Malta](/source/Malta) on a fishing trip, expected to return on 11 July. The boat was carrying five people - its owner, Simon Bugeja, his father Karmenu Bugeja, his 11-year-old son Theo Bugeja, a Maltese man named Noel Carabott, and a Somali man named Abdulrahman Abdala Gedi. It is believed that a blast<ref name="Times of Malta 2">{{cite web |url=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090630/local/what-caused-the-simshar-explosion.263120 |title=What caused the Simshar explosion? |accessdate=10 February 2016 |work=Times of Malta}}</ref> took place on board the vessel on 11 July, destroying the boat. The five people on board survived the blast and survived for several days adrift a makeshift raft made of floating debris from the blast.<ref name="The Malta Independent">{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2008-07-21/news/the-simshar-tragedy-search-for-missing-boy-continues-210716 |title=The Simshar Tragedy: Search for missing boy continues |accessdate=10 February 2016 |work=The Malta Independent}}</ref>

==Victims==
Four of the five people on board the ''Simshar'' died in the days following the incident, Simon Bugeja being the sole survivor. According to Simon Bugeja, Abdulrahman Abdala Gedi died on 12 July, followed by Noel Carabott on 13 July, Karmenu Bugeja on 14 July, and Theo Bugeja on 18 July.<ref name="The Malta Independent"/> The bodies of three of the victims were recovered, however that of Theo Bugeja was never found.<ref name="Times of Malta"/> Following an extensive search by the [Armed Forces of Malta](/source/Armed_Forces_of_Malta), and the Maltese fishing community, a fishing vessel called the ''Grecale'' found Simon Bugeja alive on 18 July.<ref name="Times of Malta"/>

==In popular culture==
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The incident was dramatised by Maltese director [Rebecca Cremona](/source/Rebecca_Cremona) through a 2014 film titled ''[Simshar](/source/Simshar_(film))''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jean Pierre Borg; Charlie Cauchi|date=2015|title=World Film Locations: Malta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6m3CgAAQBAJ&dq=Maltese+tragedies&pg=PA74|publisher=Intellect Books|page=74|isbn=9781783204984}}</ref>

==References==
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