ROME: Dozens of people are missing after a migrant boat capsized in the central Mediterranean, the NGOs Mediterranea Saving Humans and Sea-Watch said Sunday on social media.
Two people died and 32 were rescued from the boat, which had left Libya on Saturday afternoon with around 105 people on board, according to Mediterranea Saving Humans.
“Tragic Easter shipwreck. 32 survivors, two bodies recovered and more than 70 people missing,” the NGO wrote on X, adding that the boat capsized in a search-and-rescue zone handled by Libyan authorities.
Sea-Watch said two commercial ships saved the survivors and took them to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
An aerial video it posted showed two men clinging to the hull of the capsized vessel, and the approach of one of the commercial ships.
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