As many as 64 migrants, including a mother whose 3-year-old child desperately clung to her, are feared dead after a traffickers’ overcrowded rubber dinghy from Libya started sinking in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Monday. The Italian coast guard rescued 86 people from the boat hours after it started sinking Saturday morning due to a puncture. An Italian coast guard search that went through the night didn’t find any more survivors or corpses. “Sixty-four migrants lost their lives in the shipwreck (which) occurred last Saturday,” Di Giacomo said, adding that “probably 56 missing migrants” were lost at sea. She was saved, grabbed at the last second by the coast guard in the sea,” the mayor said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 08, 2018 19:07 UTC