Close to one hundred migrants were feared missing once their boat sank off the Libyan coast close to Tripoli on weekday, a service official same.
Coastguard interpreter Ayoub Qassem same twenty three migrants were saved from the craft off Gargaresh, a western suburbia of Tripoli. Survivors same the expansive boat had go off with concerning a hundred and twentyfolks on board.
"Some ninety seven ar still missing, as well as fifteen ladies and youngsters. What happened is that the bottom of the boat got destroyed and also the boat had sunk", Qassem same.
Libya is that the main departure purpose for migrants hoping to achieve Europe by ocean, and over one hundred fifty,000 have created the crossing from Libya to Italian Republic in every of the past 3 years.
Smugglers place most of the migrants in flimsy expansive dinghies that get picked up by rescue ships and different vessels once they reach water. Some ar intercepted and turned back by the Libyan service.
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