Humanitarian workers from International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), recounted details of the latest major tragedy in waters off Libya after talking to four rescued passengers, who arrived on Monday evening in the Sicilian port of Trapani.
They said their two-tier, wooden boat had left Libya on Friday with more 180 people packed on board, all of them originally from East Africa. After five hours at sea, the engine cut out and the boat started to take on water. The survivors were rescued on Saturday 30 nautical miles from the Libyan coast by a French boat.
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Over 180 feared dead from migrant boat disaster in Mediterranean
17 January 2017
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Four people died and nearly 180 are missing, presumed dead, after Saturday’s migrant ship capsize in the Mediterranean, officials said Tuesday.
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