7 minutes agoEight migrants have lost their lives in shipwreck near Libya
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)At least eight migrants have lost their lives and dozens more have been saved, as their ship has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, near Libya's coast. Italian coastal guard said he noticed the overloaded ship with migrants early yesterday morning and that Italy's Navy managed to save 84 people. Group [...]
Italian coastal guard said he noticed the overloaded ship with migrants early yesterday morning and that Italy's Navy managed to save 84 people.
The humanitarian rescue group, Sea Watch, on the Twitter network has written that the exact <x0 number is still unclear” of people who have lost their lives. This group said that at least “ ” 25 people were killed.
In 2017, nearly 3,116 migrants lost their lives or disappeared during efforts to cross the Mediterranean Sea, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
Thousands of other immigrants managed to reach Greece or Italy.
