Comment on this story Comment Gift Article ShareGENEVA — An inflatable rubber boat carrying migrants wrecked off the coast of Libya and 73 people were missing and presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday. ArrowRight The U.N. International Organization for Migration said in a statement that the disaster took place Tuesday and that Libya authorities had retrieved 11 bodies. It was not immediately clear what happened to the vessel but images showed the deflated broken-up rubber boat on shore. The footage also showed the broken-up inflatable rubber boat. AdvertisementIn 2022, more than 1,450 migrants died, according to the IOM’s missing migrants project.

Source: Libya Today February 16, 2023 01:44 UTC