100 may have drowned in shipwreck off Libya

Survivors of a shipwreck in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya yesterday have said that 100 people may have drowned, the International Organization of Migration said this evening.

"The survivors who talked to our teams when they landed at Porto Empedocle [Sicily] spoke of 100 missing people who were stuck in the hull," IOM spokesman in Italy Flavio Di Giacomo said.

According to those who made it to land, the boat was carrying 650 people when it set sail from chaos-wracked Libya, "most of them Moroccans", Di Giacomo said.

Earlier estimates had put the toll of the disaster at five...
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26/5/16
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