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Over 70 Missing After Migrant Boat Capsizes Off Libya

Over 70 people are missing and at least two have died after a migrant boat capsized in the central Mediterranean, two NGOs report.


Over 70 Missing After Migrant Boat Capsizes Off Libya

More than 70 people are missing and at least two have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized in the central Mediterranean Sea, according to two non-governmental organizations, 'Mediterranea Saving Humans' and 'Sea Watch', on Sunday. Mediterranea Saving Humans reported rescuing 32 people after the boat, which sailed on Saturday afternoon from Libya with 105 people on board — women, men, and children — sank. The organization added: 'A tragic sinking incident during Easter. 32 survivors, two bodies recovered, and more than 70 people missing.' It explained that the wooden vessel capsized in a search and rescue area controlled by Libyan authorities. Meanwhile, Sea Watch reported that the survivors were rescued by two merchant ships and disembarked on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday morning. A video released by the organization on platform X, which appears to have been filmed by the surveillance aircraft 'Sea Bird 2', shows men clinging to the overturned hull of the boat as it drifted in open sea, followed by the approach of a merchant vessel.