About 60 people are missing after the capsized migrant boat in the
Mediterranean Sea, a spokesperson for the International Organisation for
Migration (IOM) said on Friday.
Writing on Twitter, Flavio Di Giacomo said that 80 people, who
disembarked in the south-eastern Italian port of Brindisi, told IOM staff that
they were rescued after their boat capsized.
The boat, according to survivors, had about 140 people on board,
meaning that about “60 migrants went missing,’’ Di Giacomo said.
The IOM, a UN-affiliated agency, estimated that 2,169 people have died
or gone missing since the start of the year while trying to reach Europe in
Mediterranean Sea crossings. (NAN)
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