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42 migrants presumed dead after boat sinks off Libya, and only 7 rescued after 6 days adrift, U.N. says
The seven survivors were adrift for six days after their boat capsized near Zuwara; over 1,000 migrants have died in the central Mediterranean this year, IOM reported.
- The IOM reported a rubber boat carrying 49 migrants capsized six hours after leaving Zuwara, Libya on November 3, with seven survivors rescued on November 8 and 42 presumed dead.
- Migrants fleeing war and poverty used Libya as a transit point, and the vessel's engine failed in high waves around dawn hours after leaving Zuwara, causing it to overturn.
- Survivors — four Sudanese, two Nigerians and one Cameroonian — were treated in Tripoli, while the missing included 29 Sudanese, eight Somalis, three Cameroonian nationals and two Nigerians.
- The IOM urged strengthened regional cooperation and safer migration pathways, saying the sinking adds to a central Mediterranean death toll exceeding 1,000 this year, including over 500 off Libya.
- Rights groups and U.N. agencies say migrants face systematic abuse in Libya, including torture and extortion, while Britain, Spain, Norway and Sierra Leone urged Libya on Tuesday to close detention centres.
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42 migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libyan coast
The United Nations said Wednesday that 42 migrants were missing and presumed dead after a boat capsized off Libya’s coast last week, the latest in a string of deadly shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean that have claimed more than a thousand lives so far this year.
·France
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In a boat crash off the coast of Libya, more than 40 people seem to have died.
·Germany
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One of the latest accidents occurred on November 3rd when a rubber boat sank off the coast of Libya, leaving 42 migrants, mostly from Sudan, missing.
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