Members of Libya's coast guard recover the body of a migrant who drowned off Tripoli's coast, August 23, 2014. REUTERS/Aimen Elsahli
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - More than 250 migrants may have died when a boat sank a kilometre (half a mile) off the Libyan coast, a coastguard official said on Sunday.
"We believe there are still more than 250 bodies trapped underwater," coastguard official Mohammad Abdellatif told Reuters. "When we went underwater we discovered that the boat is a lot bigger than we thought."
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