More than 60 people missing after another shipwreck off the Libya’s coast
Tripoli — A new shipwreck off the Libyan coast has left 63 people missing in the latest disaster to hit migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean. The group are feared drowned after the inflatable boat they were on sank, a spokesperson for Libya’s navy, Gen Ayoub Kacem, said, citing eyewitness accounts from survivors. Kacem said that 41 people wearing life jackets were rescued. "The coast guards did not find bodies in the area," he said. According to survivors, there were 104 people on board the vessel, which sank off Garaboulli, east of Tripoli. In the past few months, this area has become the main point of departure for inflatable boats overloaded with migrants seeking to make the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean to Italy. In addition to the 41 people rescued, a Libyan coastguard boat returned to Tripoli on Monday with another 235 migrants, including 54 infants and 29 women, rescued in two other operations in the same area. The boat’s return to shore was delayed by 24 hour...
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