“At least 90 migrants are reported to have drowned, when a boat capsized off the coast of Libya this morning. 10 bodies are reported to have washed up on Libyan shores, including two Libyan nationals and eight Pakistanis."
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune
By AFP | February 2, 2018
At least 90 people were feared dead on Friday in the latest migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency said.
A boat carrying the migrants capsized off the coast of Zuwara in the early hours Friday, International Organization for Migration spokesperson Olivia Headon told reporters in Geneva by phone from Tunis.
“At least 90 migrants are reported to have drowned, when a boat capsized off the coast of Libya this morning”, the agency added in a statement.
It said that “10 bodies are reported to have washed up on Libyan shores”, including two Libyan nationals and eight Pakistanis.
Two survivors from the disaster had swum to shore, while another was rescued by a fishing boat, it added. [more ...]
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