61 migrants drown after shipwreck off Libya – group

61 migrants drown after shipwreck off Libya – group

/ 09:28 AM December 17, 2023

61 migrants drown after shipwreck off Libya

Libya map. INQUIRER STOCK PHOTO

CAIRO — Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drowned following a “tragic” shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said Saturday.

On social media platform X (formerly Twitter), the organization quoted survivors‮ ‬as saying the boat, carrying around 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zwara.

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