Four migrants drown, three missing off Libya

TRIPOLI — Four migrants were found dead and three were missing after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast, the North African country’s coast guard said Tuesday.اضافة اعلان

The agency also rescued 13 migrants who had been shipwrecked as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, it said in a statement.

“The rescued migrants were taken to the Mellitah landing point and handed to the competent authorities,” it said, adding steps would be taken to send them “back to their countries”.

Twelve of the rescued migrants were Syrian, along with one Egyptian, a navy official told AFP. The nationalities of those who died, three men and a woman, were unknown.

Since the start of the year, 129 people have died attempting the crossing, 459 have gone missing, and 6,340 migrants have been intercepted and returned to Libya, according to figures published by the UN’s migration agency on Monday.

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