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Over 70 migrants presumed killed in boat incident off Libya - IOM

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 15 Feb 2023 18:54
2 Min Read

The International Organization for Migration says that migrants who left Libya on Tuesday are presumably dead after their boat capsized off the coast.

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  • Amsa, 16 years-old, last name not available, a migrant from Somalia, watches the sunset as he stands aboard a ferry leaving the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
    Amsa, 16 years-old, last name not available, a migrant from Somalia, watches the sunset as he stands aboard a ferry leaving the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

At least 73 migrants have been lost and are now presumed dead after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday.  

"At least 73 migrants are reported missing and presumed dead following a tragic shipwreck off the Libyan coast yesterday according to @UNmigration in Libya," the organization tweeted.

"Seven survivors who made it back to Libyan shores in extremely dire conditions are currently in the hospital," the UN migration agency said.

Around 80 people in total were on board the boat, which left the coastal town of Qasr Alkayar in western Libya, on Tuesday, in an attempt to reach Europe, the IOM specified.

In April last year, up to 100 migrants died in the Mediterranean waters after the boat carrying them from Libya got shipwrecked, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Flippo Grandi said. 

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Last year, Libya's authorities arrested 542 people attempting to illegally migrate from its shores to Europe in inflatable boats; most were from Bangladesh, according to an AFP photographer.

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