Coastguards recover 8 bodies off Libyan coast

Eight bodies of drowned migrants making the dangerous journey of traveling through the Mediterranean Sea to Europe have been recovered by coast guards off the Libyan coast.

According to the spokesman of a local rescue team, dozens of other migrants feared missing, after an inflatable boat which drowned earlier was found east of Tripoli on Saturday.

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“In general this type of boat carries 100 to 110 people, so we do not know what has happened to the others,” said Issa al-Zaroog, a coastguard spokesman in the town of Garabulli.

It was not clear how the migrants, whose bodies were spotted by fishermen, had died, coastguard officials said.

 

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