A boat carrying migrants capsizes off Libya’s coast, with at least 50 dead or missing
CAIRO: A boat carrying about 60 migrants, including women and children, bound for European shores capsized off the coast of eastern Libya in the latest maritime tragedy off the North African country. At least 50 are dead or missing, authorities said.
The shipwreck occurred on Tuesday near Bardaa Island, off the coastal city of Tobruk, according to Coast Guard authorities in eastern Libya. They said 10 survivors managed to swim to the island to save themselves. The search for others continues, the Coast Guard said.
At least 50 migrants are feared dead after a wooden boat carrying around 60 people capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off eastern Libya, security sources said on Tuesday. Ten survivors were rescued near El-Bardaa Island, west of Tobruk, close to the Egyptian border. The migrants… pic.twitter.com/Sb4WEvw9pO
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