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| Dozens missing after migrant boat sinks in Mediterranean, says Libyan navy | Dozens missing after migrant boat sinks in Mediterranean, says Libyan navy |
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| The Libyan navy has said 97 people are missing after a migrant boat sank off the country’s coast. | The Libyan navy has said 97 people are missing after a migrant boat sank off the country’s coast. |
| General Ayoub Qassem, a navy spokesman in Tripoli, said a survivor had told his rescuers that the boat had set off from Garabulli with 126 people onboard and went down after being battered by high waves. Qassem said 20 people had been rescued. | |
| According to the UN, a record 3,800 people have died this year attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. | According to the UN, a record 3,800 people have died this year attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. |
| On Wednesday the French aid group Médecins Sans Frontières said it had found the bodies of 29 people who died in a pool of fuel and seawater on a crowded dinghy off Libya, probably from suffocation, skin burns or drowning. | On Wednesday the French aid group Médecins Sans Frontières said it had found the bodies of 29 people who died in a pool of fuel and seawater on a crowded dinghy off Libya, probably from suffocation, skin burns or drowning. |