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Libya: More deaths off the coast of LibyaF

Posted On 27 August 2019

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Tripoli, Aug 27, 2019 – The bodies of five migrants including a Moroccan child were recovered off Libya’s coast Tuesday while up to 20 others were missing after a Europe-bound boat sank, the navy said. Navy spokesman Ayoub Kacem told reporters 65 migrants, mostly from Sudan, were rescued off Khoms, a town 120 kilometres (75 miles) east of Tripoli.

The vessel was believed to have been carrying up to 90 people, he said, based on survivors’ accounts. Libya has long been a major transit route for migrants, especially from sub-Saharan Africa. People traffickers have operated with impunity in the chaos that  followed the 2011 uprising which toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

By AFP

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