53 migrants die in latest shipwreck tragedy off Libya coast

© SOS Méditerranée/Flavio Gasperini More than 1,300 people were reported dead or missing after embarking on the Central Mediterranean sea route to Europe last year, according to UN migration agency (IOM) data. The photo shows migrants and refugees being rescued in the Mediterranean after drifting in an overcrowded wooden boat (file).This article is published in association with United Nations. Fifty-three migrants including two babies are dead or missing after a large rubber dinghy capsized off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency said on Monday. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the boat overturned in the perishingly cold waters of the central Mediterranean […]
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