At least 70 people went missing on Saturday after a migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean, an Italian NGO said Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. Mediterranea Saving Humans announced on US social media platform X that 32 survivors and two bodies were recovered from the shipwreck while over 70 went missing. “Yesterday afternoon, a wooden vessel carrying ~105 women, men, and children, which had set sail from Tajoura fleeing Libya, capsised in the SAR (search and rescue) zone under Libyan control. The shipwreck occurred 14 nautical miles northeast of the ENI-NOC oil platforms in Bouri,” it said, referring to the Bouri Offshore Field located 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of the Libyan coast Survivors disembarked and the bodies recovered arrived early […]
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