At least 130 migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean as capsized boat, bodies found


  • World
  • Friday, 23 Apr 2021

A rubber boat is seen after having capsized with more than 100 migrants on board, during a search and rescue (SAR) operation in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan Coast, April 22, 2021. Flavio Gasperini/Sos Mediterranee/Handout via REUTERS

MILAN (Reuters) - A search in the Mediterranean sea for boats packed with migrants has found ten bodies floating near a capsized rubber boat that was believed to have been carrying 130 people, the French humanitarian organisation SOS Mediterranee said.

Another wooden boat was still missing with about 40 migrants aboard, a spokesman for SOS Mediterranee said on Friday.

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