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Survivors Say 177 Migrants Are Missing After a Boat Capsized Near Libya

(ROME) — Three survivors of a rubber dinghy that sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya say up to 117 other migrants were aboard at the time of the capsizing, a U.N. migration official said Saturday. It appeared to be the latest tragedy on the dangerous central Mediterranean route from North Africa to Europe. Flavio Di Giacomo of the International Organization for Migration told Italian state TV that “unfortunately about 120” migrants were reported by survivors to have been on the overloaded smugglers’ dinghy when it was launched from Libyan shores on Thursday evening. “After a few hours, it began sinking and people began drowning,” Di Giacomo said. Among the missing are 10 women and two children, including a two-month-old baby, he said.

 

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