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Babies among 53 dead or missing after migrant boat sinks off Libya, UN says
Only two survivors were rescued after the rubber dinghy capsized, with 53 migrants dead or missing; over 375 deaths were reported in the central Mediterranean in January alone, IOM said.
- On February 6 the International Organization for Migration said a rubber boat carrying 55 people overturned north of Zuwara, leaving at least 53 dead or missing, including two babies, and two survivors received emergency medical care.
- Amid Libya's post-2011 chaos, human traffickers have exploited porous borders and profited from dangerous crossings along the Central Mediterranean route.
- About six hours after departing al-Zawiya on February 5, two Nigerian women survived and were rescued by Libyan authorities, with personal losses reported, IOM said.
- The latest incident brings this year's toll on the Central Mediterranean route to at least 484, while IOM data show January alone saw at least 375 dead or missing amid extreme weather.
- Those intercepted and returned to Libya face detention-centre abuses including forced labour, and human traffickers extort families before forcing migrants onto ill-equipped smugglers' boats.
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