Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drown after shipwreck off Libya -group

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drowned following a "tragic" shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said on social media platform X on Saturday.

The organization quoted survivors‮ ‬as saying the boat, carrying around 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zwara.

(Reporting by Hatem Maher; writing by Ahmed Tolbad; editing by Jonathan Oatis)